malignancy

Meanings

Plural: malignancies

Noun

• (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
• quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
• The state of being malignant or diseased.
• A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
• That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

Synonyms

malignance, malignity

Antonyms

benignancy, benignity

Related Words

malign, malignly, malignment