malignance
1. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death • Syn: malignancy • Derivationally related forms: malignant, malignant (for: malignancy) • Topics: medicine, medical specialty • Hypernyms: disease • Hyponyms: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor • Part Meronyms: cancer cell 2. quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will • Syn: malignity, malignancy • Ant: benignancy (for: malignancy), benignity (for: malignity) • Derivationally related forms: malign (for: malignity) • Hypernyms: evil, evilness • Attrubites: malign
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