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Malignity vs Heinousness - What's the difference?

malignity | heinousness | Related terms |

Malignity is a related term of heinousness.


As nouns the difference between malignity and heinousness

is that malignity is the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness while heinousness is the property of being heinous.

malignity

English

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.

    References

    * Webster's Dictionary On-line * Catholic Archives Notre Dame University * (w, Strong's Concordance) * King James Version of the Bible

    heinousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being heinous.

    • Related terms

    * atrocity * cruelty