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malignity.

The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

9 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.

    countable · uncountable
  3. A group of goblins.

    collective · countable · neologism · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity. * (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”.

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