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Hypostasis

//haɪˈpɑstəsɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "Phi[sitian]. I view’d your vrine, and the Hipoſtates ^([sic – meaning Hipoſtaſis]) / Thick and obſcure doth make your danger great, […]"

  2. 2
    (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality wordnet
  3. 3
    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’). countable, uncountable

    "the hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"

  4. 4
    the accumulation of blood in an organ wordnet
  5. 5
    The underlying reality or substance of something. countable, uncountable

    "Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges"."

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  1. 6
    the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene wordnet
  2. 7
    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. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    The underlying reality or substance of something.; 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. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. countable, uncountable

    "When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis’ of the suppressed gene) is used."

  5. 10
    Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation. countable, uncountable

    "I am, of course, excluding the hypostasis produced by his having lain a whole week face downward in the cellar. That, naturally, is all in the front part of the body."

Etymology

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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