malignancy
1. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death (Freq. 1) • Syn: malignance • Derivationally related forms: malignant (for: malignance), malignant • Topics: medicine, medical specialty • Hypernyms: disease • Hyponyms: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor • Part Meronyms: cancer cell 2. quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will • Syn: malignity, malignance • Ant: benignancy, benignity (for: malignity) • Derivationally related forms: malign (for: malignity) • Hypernyms: evil, evilness • Attrubites: malign
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