malignity

Etymology

From Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitas.

noun

1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
   On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 265
2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
   2005, Jun;106(3):177-80 English abstract of French article "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma" R.L. Abada et al., "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma", Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.