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What (who) is hypostasis - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Hypostased; Hypostases; Hypostatic; Hypostasis (disambiguation); Hypostatisation
hypostasis
n.
1.
Substance, subsistence.
2.
Person, personality.
3.
Principle, element.
hypostasis
[h??'p?st?s?s]
¦ noun (plural hypostases -si:z)
1. Medicine the accumulation of fluid or blood in parts of the body or organs, as occurs in cases of poor circulation or after death.
2. Philosophy an underlying reality or substance.
3. Theology each of the three persons of the Trinity.
the single person of Christ, as contrasted with his dual human and divine nature.
Origin
C16: via eccles. L. from Gk hupostasis 'essence'.
Hypostasis
·noun That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
II. Hypostasis ·noun That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
III. Hypostasis ·noun Principle; an element;
- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies.
IV. Hypostasis ·noun Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality;
- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Wikipedia
Hypostasis
Hypostatic, hypostasis, or hypostatization (hypostatisation; from the Ancient Greek ὑπόστᾰσις, "under state") may refer to:
- Hypostasis (philosophy and religion), the essence or underlying reality
- Hypostatic abstraction (mathematics and logic)
- Hypostasis of the Archons, a Gnostic work
- Hypostasis (linguistics), personification of entities
- Hypostasis (literature), awareness by a fictional character that their world is fictional
- Hypostatic gene, as a result of epistasis
- Hypostasis (livor mortis), corpse's discoloration
- Hypostatic model of personality, a psychological model, or theory, of personality masks
- Hypostatic union, Christian concept
- Holding current (electronics), or the hypostatic current
- Reification (fallacy), where hypostasis identifies a reified thing, and hypostatization refers to the thought process
- Sediment in a liquid, including:
- Sediment#Dregs
- A type of boss enemy in the video game Genshin Impact
