Malignancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Malignance \Ma*lig"nance\, Malignancy \Ma*lig"nan*cy\, n. [See
     {Malignant}.]
     1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme
        malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward
        evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.
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     2. Unfavorableness; evil nature.
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              The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner
              yours.                                --Shak.
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     3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the
        malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
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     4. Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond
        the point of origin.
  
     Syn: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor.
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     5. The state of being a malignant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  malignancy
       n 1: (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to
            treatment and tending to cause death [syn: {malignance}]
       2: quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: {malignity},
           {malignance}] [ant: {benignity}, {benignity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "malignancy":
     balefulness, banefulness, bitchiness, communicability,
     contagiousness, cussedness, deadliness, despite, destructiveness,
     detrimentalness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent,
     fatality, grudge, harmfulness, hatefulness, hurtfulness, ill will,
     infectiousness, infectivity, iniquitousness, injuriousness,
     invidiousness, lethality, maleficence, malevolence, malice,
     malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance,
     malignity, meanness, mischievousness, mortality, nastiness,
     noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, orneriness, perniciousness,
     poison, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, toxicity,
     unhealthiness, venom, venomousness, viciousness, virulence,
     virulency, wickedness