hypostasis
Meanings
noun
- A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
- The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
- The underlying reality or substance of something.
- A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
- Referring to the hypostatic model of personality; i.e., asserting that humans present themselves in many different aspects or hypostases, depending on the internal and external realities they relate to, including different approaches to the study of personality.
- The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
- Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
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From Ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis, “sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + στάσις (stásis, “standing”). Morphologically hypo- + -stasis.
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