Malice vs Malignancy - What's the difference?
malice | malignancy |
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
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 malice and malignancy
is that malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune while malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased.malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
Synonyms
* ill will * wickedness * evilnessDerived terms
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* ----malignancy
English
Noun
(malignancies)- The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
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