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hypostasis

/haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/

noun

Meaning

  • 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.

  • The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.

  • Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

Synonyms

subsistence