Malignancy vs Abomination - What's the difference?
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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.}}
An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing.
(obsolete) A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution.
That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones.
* Antony, most large in his abominations . Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III-vi
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Malignancy is a related term of abomination.
As nouns the difference between malignancy and abomination
is that malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased while abomination is an abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit .malignancy
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(malignancies)- The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
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