malignancy

1. 1.

   (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death

   Synonymsmalignance

   Broaderdisease

   Narrowermalignant tumor

   Partscancer cell

   medicine

2. 2.

   quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

   Synonymsmalignitymalignance

   Antonymsbenignancy

   Broaderevil

Other forms of malignancy

plural

malignancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about malignancy

What does malignancy mean?

malignancy means "(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malignancy?

malignancy has 4 syllables: ma-lig-nan-cy. The stress falls on "lig". In IPA it is /məˈlɪɡnənsi/.

What is another word for malignancy?

Close synonyms include malignance, malignity, malignance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of malignancy?

The recorded antonyms are benignancy.

Is malignancy a common word?

malignancy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.