hypostasis

/haɪˈpɒstəsɪs//haɪˈpɑstəsɪs/

noun

  1. 1

    A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

  2. 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. 3

    The underlying reality or substance of something.

  4. 4

    The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.

  5. 5

    Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

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