malignance; malignancy

malignance; malignancy is a   Noun

Definition:

[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] Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

[4] The state of being a malignant.

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