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MALIGNITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does malignity mean?

• MALIGNITY (noun)
The noun MALIGNITY has 2 senses:

1. wishing evil to others
2. quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

Familiarity information: MALIGNITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MALIGNITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Wishing evil to others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

malevolence; malignity

Hypernyms ("malignity" is a kind of...):

hate; hatred (the emotion of hate; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malignity"):

maleficence (doing or causing evil)

malice; maliciousness; spite; spitefulness; venom (feeling a need to see others suffer)

vengefulness; vindictiveness (a malevolent desire for revenge)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

malignance; malignancy; malignity

Hypernyms ("malignity" 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)

Antonym:

benignity (the quality of being kind and gentle)

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