# malignity

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
3. 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”.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/malignity