malignity vs malice

malignity and malice both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malignity	Yes	No	No	No
malice	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, malice is a hyponym of malignity; that is, malice is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than malignity:

Other hyponyms of malignity include maleficence, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom, vengefulness, vindictiveness.

malignity (noun)	malice (noun)
quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will	the quality of threatening evil
wishing evil to others	feeling a need to see others suffer