hypostasis

/haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/noun
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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 (sharing a single ‘essence’).

3

The underlying reality or substance of something.

4

A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.

5

Referring to the hypostatic model of personality; i.e., asserting that humans present themselves in many different aspects or hypostases, depending on the internal and external realities they relate to, including different approaches to the study of personality.

6

The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.

7

Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

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