Benignity

For other uses, see Benign (disambiguation).

Benignity (from Latin benignus "kind, good", itself deriving from bonus "good" and genus "origin") is any condition that is harmless in the long run. The opposite of benignity is malignity (or malignancy in Medical discourse).

In oncology (the study of cancer)
Outside oncology

See also

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