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malignancy

noun
/məˈlɪɡ.nən.si/

Etymology

From malignant + -cy or malign + -ancy or Latin malignantia.

  1. borrowed from malignantia

Definitions

  1. The state of being malignant or diseased.

  2. A malignant cancer

    A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.

  3. That which is malign

    That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

    • [T]he malignancie of my fate, might perhaps diſtemper yours; […]
    • A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.

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Derived

hematomalignancy, lymphomalignancy, nonmalignancy, premalignancy, pseudomalignancy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for malignancy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA