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malignancy

Syllables: ma·lig·nan·cy/məˈlɪɡ.nən.si/

malignancy noun: the state of being malignant or diseased.

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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...
    • A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Baskerville Hall”, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1902, →OCLC, page 115

malignancy meaning in Tamil and Urdu

malignancy in Tamil

வேகமாகப் பரவக்கூடிய, கொடும் புற்றுநம், கொல்லும்புற்று, பரவும்பற்று, புற்று

malignancy in Urdu

بدی, کینہ

Examples of malignancy in a sentence

  • The thermoexpandable nitinol stent: a long-term alternative in patients without nephropathy or malignancy.
  • Until now a total of 38 Patients with malignancies of the head and neck were examined.
  • Angiosarcoma is the most-common differentiated malignant neoplasm of the heart and accounts for 10–15% of primary cardiac malignancies.

All 12 example sentences with malignancy

Synonyms of malignancy

Antonyms

Forms of malignancy

pluralmalignancies

Plural of malignancy: malignancies

Origin of malignancy

From malignant + -cy or malign + -ancy or Latin malignantia.

Words formed from malignancy

Questions about malignancy

What does malignancy mean?
Malignancy means the state of being malignant or diseased.
What is malignancy in Tamil?
Malignancy in Tamil is வேகமாகப் பரவக்கூடிய, கொடும் புற்றுநம், கொல்லும்புற்று. See Malignancy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is malignancy?
Malignancy is a noun.
How do you pronounce malignancy?
Malignancy is pronounced /məˈlɪɡ.nən.si/.
What is the plural of malignancy?
The plural of malignancy is malignancies.

Words near malignancy in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: malignancy (page history and authors); malignancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malignancy (Urdu Wiktionary) (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.

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