Malignity vs Loathing - What's the difference?
malignity | loathing | Related terms |
The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
* 1861 , Charles Dickens, Great Expectations , :
A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
* 2005 , Jun;106(3):177-80
Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.
Malignity is a related term of loathing.
As nouns the difference between malignity and loathing
is that malignity is the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness while loathing is sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.As a verb loathing is
.malignity
English
Noun
- 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.
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
loathing
English
Noun
- The man's loathing of his former friend was palpable; you could feel how much he now hated him.