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hypostasis
/haɪˈpɑstəsɪs/
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What does hypostasis mean?
noun
- The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his ‘nature(s)’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
- The underlying reality or substance of something.
- A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
More meanings (4)
noun
- 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.
- The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
- Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
- (archaic) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
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IPA pronunciation
/haɪˈpɑstəsɪs/
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To think with grandeur and clearness, man must remove the lining of his nature and hold to his masculine hypostasis.