Malignity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Malignity	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
malignity n wishing evil to others Synonym(s): malevolence, malignity Antonym(s): benevolence quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will Synonym(s): malignity, malignancy, malignance Antonym(s): benignancy, benignity, graciousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Malignity \Malig"nity\, n. [F. malignit[82], 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}.