NOUN | feeling | malignity, malevolence | wishing evil to others |
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attribute | malignity, malignancy, malignance | quality of being disposed to evil |
Meaning | wishing evil to others. | |
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Synonym | malevolence | |
Narrower | maleficence | Doing or causing evil |
malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom | Feeling a need to see others suffer | |
vindictiveness, vengefulness | A malevolent desire for revenge | |
Broader | hate, hatred | The emotion of intense dislike |
Opposite | benevolence | Disposition to do good |
Spanish | malevolencia, malignidad | |
Catalan | malignitat, malvolença |
Meaning | Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will. | |
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Synonyms | malignancy, malignance | |
Attributes | malign | Evil or harmful in nature or influence |
Broader | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
Opposite | benignity, benignancy, graciousness | The quality of being kind and gentle |
Spanish | malignidad | |
Adjectives | malign | having or exerting a malignant influence |
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