Word.ws English Dictionary

cancerousness

cancerousness noun: the state or quality of being cancerous.

Noun

cancerousness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being cancerous.
    • If, on the other hand, a tumor consist chiefly of fibre or fibrillating blastema, the presumption of its cancerousness diminishes; we have, however, seen a growth in the liver, which had all the aspect of a scirrhous formation, and probably was so, which yet consisted solely of fibre-forming solid...1854, Charles Handfield Jones, A Manual of pathological anatomy
    • Only one line of mouse cells will perform this trick— a line called NIH 3T3 that has been bred in the laboratory for so many generations that it has long since forgotten what normality is, and is within a whisker of cancerousness even without the intervention of extraneous oncogenes.1983 June 9, New Scientist, volume 98, number 1361, page 691

Origin of cancerousness

From cancerous + -ness.

Questions about cancerousness

What does cancerousness mean?
Cancerousness means the state or quality of being cancerous.
What part of speech is cancerousness?
Cancerousness is a noun.

Words near cancerousness in the dictionary

  1. canceroprotective
  2. cancerostatic
  3. cancerotoxic
  4. cancerous
  5. cancerously
  6. cancerousness
  7. cancerphobe
  8. cancerphobes
  9. cancerphobia
  10. cancerphobic
  11. cancers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cancerousness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cancerousness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cancerousness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.