different between spitefulness vs malignity

English

Etymology

spiteful +? -ness

Noun

spitefulness (countable and uncountable, plural spitefulnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being spiteful.
2. (countable) The result or product of being spiteful.

Synonyms

• nastiness
• hatefulness
• maliciousness
• malevolence

Translations

See also

• ill will
• hostility

English

Etymology

From Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitas.

Noun

malignity (countable and uncountable, plural malignities)

1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 40:

     His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
   • 2005, Jun;106(3):177-80 English abstract of French article "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma" R.L. Abada et al., "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma", Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale

     The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.

References

• Webster's Dictionary On-line
• Catholic Archives Notre Dame University
• Strong's Concordance
• King James Version of the Bible