What is another word for malignity?

Pronunciation: [məlˈɪɡnɪti] (IPA)

Malignity is a word that is often used to describe behavior or actions that are intentionally harmful or spiteful. However, there are several other synonyms that can be used to convey this meaning, including malevolence, malice, spite, vindictiveness, and animosity. Each of these words has a slightly different connotation and nuance, but they share the common theme of describing harmful or negative behavior towards others. Whether used in a personal or professional context, it's important to recognize and call out malignity when it is encountered to maintain a healthy and positive environment for all.

Synonyms for Malignity:

What are the hypernyms for Malignity?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for malignity?

Malignity is a term that refers to the state or quality of being malicious, malevolent, or evil. Some antonyms for malignity include kindness, goodness, benevolence, and generosity. These words reflect positive attributes that highlight the opposite of malignity. Kindness refers to the quality of being friendly, considerate, and compassionate. Goodness is the quality of being morally and ethically good, while benevolence refers to the trait of being well-meaning and charitable towards others. Generosity speaks to the quality of being liberal in giving or sharing, which is the opposite of the selfish and malevolent qualities associated with malignity. All these antonyms for malignity portray positive and desirable human qualities.

Usage examples for Malignity

We are glad to have so characteristic an exposure of the malignity of the Jews, and a view of our Lord which, although from a novel standpoint, is yet quite consistent with other representations of His manner and spirit.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Then, second, the Emancipation Act gave it organization, purpose, malignity, and made it, in short, the nihilism we know, converting it into the engine of the bitter discontent of the landed classes, who were seriously straitened and many of them ruined by the operation of that great reform.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Distrust thin lips; they're a sure sign of malignity and hypocrisy.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock

Famous quotes with Malignity

  • A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
    Samuel Johnson
  • When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a
    Samuel Johnson
  • Has he therefore outwitted the law? Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions of being.The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism.Our instinct uses "more" and "less" in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence; the brave man is greater than the coward; the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man, and not less, than the fool and knave.But all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had, if paid for in nature's lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and the head allow.I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons.Herein I rejoice with a serene eternal peace. I contract the boundaries of possible mischief. I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard, — "Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault."
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The last speech, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity — how awful!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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