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Anger vs Malignancy - What's the difference?

anger | malignancy |

As nouns the difference between anger and malignancy

is that anger is remorse, regret while malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased.

anger

English

(wikipedia anger)

Noun

  • A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
  • * {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
    • , passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
  • * Temple
    • I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Related terms

    () * anguish * anxiety * anxious

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
    • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
    • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

    * * Notes:

    Anagrams

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    malignancy

    English

    Noun

    (malignancies)
  • The state of being malignant or diseased.
  • A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
  • That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Hound of the Baskervilles citation
    • , passage=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.}}

    Antonyms

    * benignancy