different between malignancy vs sickness

English

Etymology

malignant +? -cy or malign +? -ancy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l??.n?n.si/

Noun

malignancy (countable and uncountable, plural malignancies)

1. The state of being malignant or diseased.
2. A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
3. That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

Synonyms

• malignance
• malignity

Antonyms

• benignancy
• benignity

Derived terms

• nonmalignancy
• premalignancy
• pseudomalignancy

Related terms

• malign
• malignly
• malignment

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old English s?ocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?kn?s/
• Hyphenation: sick?ness

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

   I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare

   Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.

   Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7

     We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

Synonyms

• (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

Derived terms

Translations

References

• sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.