malignancy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
    malignance.
  2. noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
    malignity; malignance.

WordNet

Ma*lig"nance, Ma*lig"nan*cy noun (Also<
  • Malignance
  • Malignancy
)
Etymology
See Malignant.
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
  2. Unfavorableness; evil nature.
    The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak.
  3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
  4. The state of being a malignant. Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice.

Webster 1913