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.}}

Noun

(enormities)

(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.

Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot's oppression.

(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.

(uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.

* {{quote-news

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* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 103:

But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.