Associations to the word «Hypostasis»
Noun
Wiktionary
HYPOSTASIS, noun. (medicine) (obsolete) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. [14th-19th c.]
HYPOSTASIS, noun. (theology) 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 (comprising a single ‘essence’). [from 16th c.]
HYPOSTASIS, noun. (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. [from 17th c.]
HYPOSTASIS, noun. (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. [from 20th c.]
HYPOSTASIS, noun. Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
Dictionary definition
HYPOSTASIS, noun. The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene.
HYPOSTASIS, noun. The accumulation of blood in an organ.
HYPOSTASIS, noun. Any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united.
HYPOSTASIS, noun. (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality.
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