Noun: malignance
- (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
"The malignance of the tumour was confirmed by further tests";
- malignancy
- Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
"The malignance of the propaganda campaign poisoned public discourse";
- malignity, malignancy
Derived forms: malignances
See also: malign
Type of: disease, evil, evilness, ill
Antonym: benignancy