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disease vs malignancy

malignancy vs disease

disease and malignancy both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
disease Yes No No No
malignancy Yes No No No
As nouns, malignancy is a hyponym of disease; that is, malignancy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than disease:
  • disease: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
  • malignancy: (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
disease (noun) malignancy (noun)
an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
Difference between disease and malignancy

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