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malignity

noun

Etymology

From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity. * (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”.

  1. derived from malignitās
  2. derived from maligneté
  3. inherited from malignete

Definitions

  1. The quality of being malign or malignant

    The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

    • His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
    • On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity.

  2. A non-benign cancer

    A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.

    • The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.

  3. A group of goblins.

    • There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud.
    • A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.
    • As a malignity of goblins giggled drunkenly in a corner booth, Fabian and I approached the table with Isaac and Hakim.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for malignity. 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