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• n  (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
• n  quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

• Although celebrity is as old as society, Schickel believes that its new malignance results from the rise of communications technology.
• The removal of the Italian dictator was, in a sense, preliminary surgery on the malignance still afflicting mankind.
• Its story, like all children's tales, is elementary malignance v.

• malignancy
• malignity

• benignity
• benignancy