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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MALIG'NITY, n. [L. malignitas.] Extreme enmity, or evil dispositions of heart towards another; malice without provocation, or malevolence with baseness of heart; deep rooted spite.
1. Virulence; destructive tendency; as the malignity of an ulcer or disease.
2. Extreme evilness of nature; as the malignity of fraud.
3. Extreme sinfulness; enormity or heinousness; as the malignity of sin.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: wishing evil to others [syn: malevolence, malignity] [ant: benevolence]
2: quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: malignity, malignancy, malignance] [ant: benignancy, benignity, graciousness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. malignancy, malevolence 2. an instance of malignant or malicious behavior or nature Synonyms: see malice

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Malignity Ma*lig"ni*ty, n. [F. malignit['e], L. malignitas.] 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Malice, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, hatred, animosity, ill-will, rancor, spite. 2. Virulence, fatality, malignancy, deadliness, destructiveness. 3. Heinousness, enormity, evilness.