EGAVE

hypostasis

About 0.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. noun The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his ‘nature(s)’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
    the hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
  7. noun Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

Similar words

epistasis hyposthenuria hydrops hypostrophe phosphatic diathesis hydaturia hypersthenuria hydruria hydrocytosis orthostatic hypotension

Often followed by

of and is or in as to was which

Word family

hypostases hypostatic hypostatically

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