Definition of Benignancy

1. Noun. The quality of being kind and gentle.

Exact synonyms: Benignity, Graciousness
Generic synonyms: Good, Goodness
Attributes: Benign, Benignant
Derivative terms: Benign, Benign, Gracious, Gracious
Antonyms: Malignancy, Malignity

Definition of Benignancy

1. n. Benignant quality; kindliness.

Definition of Benignancy

1. Noun. benignity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Benignancy

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Benignancy

benign neonatal convulsions
benign nephrosclerosis
benign paroxysmal peritonitis
benign paroxysmal postural vertigo
benign positional vertigo
benign prostatic hyperplasia
benign prostatic hypertrophy
benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy
benign stupor
benign tertian malaria
benign tetanus
benign tumor
benign tumors
benign tumour
benignancies
benignancy (current term)
benignant
benignantly
benigner
benignest
benignities
benignity
benignly
benignness
benihana
benihanas
benim
benin
benippled
benis

Literary usage of Benignancy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text Book of Veterinary Medicine by James Law (1906)
"CYCLES OF POTENCY : PERIODS OF MALIGNANCY AND benignancy. Nothing is more certain than the varying potency of a microbe and its toxins for a year or a ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"In spite of the benignancy of the giant-cell sarcoma, a resection or, in particularly favorable cases, an enucleation, of the tumor is necessary as the ..."

3. Researches in pathological anatomy and clinical surgery by Joseph Sampson Gamgee, Sampson Gamgee (1856)
"No cancer-cells appearing upon its being submitted to careful microscopic examination, the diagnosis of benignancy was held to be indisputably confirmed, ..."

4. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"... the more impossible it became to make the anatomical peculiarities of tumors agree with the old views of malignancy and benignancy. ..."

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