Synonyms for malignity
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Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Malevolence — the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness
malevolence, malice, wickedness, ill-will, hatred, enmity, depravity, badness, virulence, rancor US, rancour UK, venom, perversion, evilness, acrimony, spite, baseness, despite, devilry, devilment, vitiation, maliciousness, bitterness
2. Malignancy
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Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
- n. 2
A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
Forms
- Plural
- malignities → malevolences, malices, wickednesses, hatreds…
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Malignity is the extreme of settled ill intent; virulence is an envenomed hostility. Virulence is outspoken; malignity may be covered with smooth and courteous phrase.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- malice He jostled me unintentionally, not out of malice.
- wickedness The desire of wickedness came up in your heart.
- malevolence I will fight back against Tom's malevolence.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| malignity | steady | |
| malice | steady | |
| wickedness | rising | |
| malevolence | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- spite1, venom2
- 6 letters
- hatred2, malice2, enmity3, rancor2
- 7 letters
- despite2, badness2, rancour, devilry
- 8 letters
- fatality4, acrimony4, evilness, baseness
- 9 letters
- depravity4, virulence3, devilment, vitiation
- 10 letters
- bitterness3, wickedness3, perversion3, malignancy4, malignance
- 11 letters
- malevolence
- 13 letters
- maliciousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (venom2 = 2 syllables).