Noun

(en noun)

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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* (David Crystal)

Fears and hatreds pay no attention to facts.

Noun

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

* 1861 , Charles Dickens, Great Expectations , :

His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.

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.