malignancy

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  • Noun:
    (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
    quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

Word Origin

malignancy (n.)
c. 1600, "malignant nature," from malignant + -cy. Of growths, tumors, from 1680s.

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