Malignity vs Malice - What's the difference?
malignity | malice |
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
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
As nouns the difference between malignity and malice
is that malignity is the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness while malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.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
malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
