HYPOSTASIS

Hypostasis

The concept of hypostasis as the shared existence of spiritual or corporal entities has been used in a number of religious and intellectual settings. The word hypostasis means underlying state or underlying substance, and is the fundamental reality that supports all else.

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hypostasis

Noun

  1. A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
  2. 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’).
  3. The underlying reality or substance of something.
  4. The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.


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