Hypertext Webster Gateway: "malignity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Malignity \Ma*lig"ni*ty\, n. [F. malignit['e], L. malignitas.]
1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do
evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
2. Virulence; deadly quality.
His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in
his disease. --Hayward.
3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness;
heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.]
Syn: See {Malice}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
malignity
n 1: wishing evil to others [syn: {malevolence}] [ant: {benevolence}]
2: quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: {malignancy},
{malignance}] [ant: {benignity}, {benignity}]
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