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.

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.

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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.