Akademik

malignance

noun

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

Useful english dictionary. 2012.