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MALIGNANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
Synonyms:
malignance; malignancy; malignity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("malignance" is a kind of...):
evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)
Attribute:
malign (evil or harmful in nature or influence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
Synonyms:
malignance; malignancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malignance" is a kind of...):
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)
Meronyms (parts of "malignance"):
cancer cell (a cell that is part of a malignant tumor)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malignance"):
malignant neoplasm; malignant tumor; metastatic tumor (a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body)
Derivation:
malignant (dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor))
