Malignity

Quick meaning: Malignity is a noun meaning The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
2. (fantasy, neologism, collective) A group of goblins.

Example Sentences

A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.

On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity.

As a malignity of goblins giggled drunkenly in a corner booth, Fabian and I approached the table with Isaac and Hakim.

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.

Word Forms

• malignities

Synonyms for malignity

Depending on context, synonyms include baseness, depravity, malice, perversion, badness, devilishness.

Antonyms for malignity

Common opposites include benevolence, benignity, graciousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include malevolence, malignancy, motiveless, gratify, maliciousness, menacingness.

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