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malignity

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: baseness, depravity, malice, perversion, bad manners, badness, delinquency, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, disobedience, elfishness, goings-on, hanky-panky, impishness, impropriety, misbehavior, mischief, mischievousness, misconduct, misdemeanor, monkey business, naughtiness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, wrong, wrongness, corruption, defilement, degeneracy, degradation, depravation, depravedness, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, pollution, pravity, sin, sinfulness, turpitude, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 3

A group of goblins.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: collective, countable, neologism, uncountable

Topics: fantasy

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 4

quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: malignancy, malignance

Antonyms: benignity

Broader terms: evil, evilness

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noun

Meaning 5

wishing evil to others

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: malevolence

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hate, hatred

Narrower terms: maleficence, malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom, vindictiveness, vengefulness

History

Etymology

From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity. * (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”.