malignance
Deeply harmful intent
Malignance is the quality of being malignant—harboring ill will or causing harm.
In medicine, malignance describes the dangerous, invasive character of cancerous growths, as opposed to benign ones.
Outside clinical contexts, it characterizes deep-seated hostility or evil intent: The malignance in his voice was unmistakable.
The word shares meaning with malignancy, though malignancy is more common in both medical and general usage.
Active, bitter hostility
- antagonismActive opposition or hostility
- belligerenceWarlike aggression
- enmityBitter, lasting ill will
- ill-willHostile or unkind feeling
malevolence · spite · vindictiveness · resentment · bitterness · vengefulness · grudge · antipathy
Active ill will
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- villainyCriminal or evil behavior
- depravityProfound moral corruption
diabolical · maleficent · vile · heinous · pernicious · demonic · fiendish · darkness
Abnormal tissue mass
- oncologyCancer medicine specialty
- chemotherapyAnti-cancer drug treatment
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
- metastasisCancer spreading beyond origin
carcinoma · sarcoma · leukemia · lymphoma · biopsy · oncologist · neoplasm · adenocarcinoma
animosity
Active, bitter hostility
- antagonismActive opposition or hostility
- belligerenceWarlike aggression
- enmityBitter, lasting ill will
ill-will · malevolence · spite · vindictiveness · resentment · bitterness · vengefulness · grudge · antipathy · hatred
malevolence
Active ill will
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- villainyCriminal or evil behavior
depravity · diabolical · maleficent · vile · heinous · pernicious · demonic · fiendish · darkness · malefic
tumor
Abnormal tissue mass
- oncologyCancer medicine specialty
- chemotherapyAnti-cancer drug treatment
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
metastasis · carcinoma · sarcoma · leukemia · lymphoma · biopsy · oncologist · neoplasm · adenocarcinoma · melanoma
malignancebenevolence
Disposition toward doing good
benignity · kindness · benignancy · goodwill · charity
malignancevirtue
Moral goodness or merit
goodness · righteousness · purity · innocence · wholesomeness
- malignant tumorCancerous bodily growth
- malignant cellsHarmful, uncontrolled tissue growth
- malignant narcissismPathological self-love with cruelty
- malignant growthHarmful, spreading tumor
malignant, malignancy, malignantly, nonmalignant, premalignant