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malignancies

malignancies is the plural of malignancy.

Meaning of malignancy

Noun

malignancy (countable and uncountable, plural malignancies)

  1. The state of being malignant or diseased.
  2. A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
  3. That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
    • [T]he malignancie of my fate, might perhaps diſtemper yours; […]c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about malignancies

What is malignancies the plural of?
Malignancies is the plural of malignancy.

Words near malignancies in the dictionary

  1. Maligaya
  2. malign
  3. malignable
  4. malignance
  5. malignances
  6. malignancies
  7. malignancy
  8. malignant
  9. malignant catarrhal fever
  10. malignant edema
  11. malignantly

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