malignity
The English word “malignity” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
- A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
- A group of goblins.
Etymology
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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