malignance vs evil

malignance and evil both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malignance	Yes	No	No	No
evil	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, evil is a hypernym of malignance; that is, evil is a word with a broader meaning than malignance:

Other hypernyms of malignance include evilness.

malignance (noun)	evil (noun)
quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will	morally objectionable behavior
(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death	the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

malignance (adjective)	evil (adjective)
	morally bad or wrong
	having or exerting a malignant influence
	having the nature of vice