Thesaurus: malignancy

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1. n. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
2. n. Unfavorableness; evil nature.
3. n. Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
4. n. The state of being a malignant.
5. n. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
6. n. quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
7. 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart. 2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak. 3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. 4. The state of being a malignant. Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice.
8. n:100 n. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death