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The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

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  1. n. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
  2. n. Virulence; deadly quality.
  3. n. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.
  4. n. wishing evil to others
  5. n. quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
  6. 1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.] Syn. -- See Malice.
  7. n. quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will