malignity
[noun]
Synonyms: malice, despite, grudge, ill will, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, spite, spitefulness, spleen

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Antonyms: benignity
Related Words: revengefulness, vengefulness, vindictiveness

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

malignity noun. [mǝ'lɪgnɪti] LME.
[Old French malignité or Latin malignitas, from malignus MALIGN adjective: see -ITY.]
1. Wicked and deep-rooted ill will or hatred; intense and persistent desire to cause suffering to another person; propensity to this feeling. LME.
b. In pl. Malignant feelings or actions. E16.

2. Wickedness, heinousness. arch. M16.

3. Noxiousness, deleteriousness. arch. E17.

4. Medicine. = MALIGNANCY 5. M17.

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