hypostasis

Meanings

Plural: hypostaseis, hypostases

Noun

• the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
• the accumulation of blood in an organ
• any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
• (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
• 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.
• 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.
• The underlying reality or substance of something.
• The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
• Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

Synonyms

epistasis, hypostasis of Christ, subsistence

Related Words

anhypostasia, enhypostasia, hypostatize