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Viciousness vs Malignity - What's the difference?

viciousness | malignity | Related terms |

Viciousness is a related term of malignity.


As nouns the difference between viciousness and malignity

is that viciousness is the characteristic of being vicious while malignity is the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

viciousness

English

Noun

  • the characteristic of being vicious
  • the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty

    • Synonyms

    * (being vicious) viciosity, vitiosity

    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