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Animosity vs Malignancy - What's the difference?

animosity | malignancy |

As nouns the difference between animosity and malignancy

is that animosity is violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike while malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased.

animosity

English

Noun

(animosities)
  • Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

    • Synonyms

    * enmity * hatred * opposition * acrimony

    Antonyms

    * peace

    Related terms

    * animose

    References

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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