Hypostasis Definition

hī-pŏstə-sĭs
hypostases
noun
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The underlying, essential nature of a thing.
Webster's New World
A deposit or sediment.
Webster's New World
Something that has been hypostatized.
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Any of the three persons of the Trinity, each person having the divine nature fully and equally.
Webster's New World
The masking or suppression of a gene by another gene that is not its allele.
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Origin of Hypostasis

  • From ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupostasis, “sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ὑπό (hupo) + στάσις (stasis, “standing”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin from Greek hupostasis hupo- hypo- stasis a standing stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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