Akademik

malignancy

noun

1. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death (Freq. 1)

• Syn: ↑malignance

• Derivationally related forms: ↑malignant (for: ↑malignance), ↑malignant

• 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, ↑malignance

• Ant: ↑benignancy, ↑benignity (for: ↑malignity)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑malign (for: ↑malignity)

• Hypernyms: ↑evil, ↑evilness

• Attrubites: ↑malign

Useful english dictionary. 2012.