Maleficence vs Malignancy - What's the difference?
maleficence | malignancy |
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
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Hound of the Baskervilles
, 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.}}
As nouns the difference between maleficence and malignancy
is that maleficence is harmfulness or mischief while malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased.malignancy
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Noun
(malignancies)- The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
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