malignity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wishing evil to others
    malevolence.
  2. noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
    malignancy; malignance.

WordNet

Ma*lig"ni*ty noun
Etymology
F. malignité, L. malignitas.
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
  2. Virulence; deadly quality.
    His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward.
  3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. R. Syn. -- See Malice.

Webster 1913