Hypostasis

Quick meaning: Hypostasis is a noun meaning (medicine, archaic) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

Meaning

(medicine, archaic) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something.
2. (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
3. Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
4. (theology) 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’).

Example Sentences

the hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

The One, Intellect and Soul, then, are the three transcendent sources – or hypostases – of existence.

Thus the kidneys also have their particular excrement which is contained in it and is the hypostasis (deposit).

Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges".

Word Forms

• hypostases
• hypostaseis

Synonyms for hypostasis

Depending on context, synonyms include subsistence, epistasis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epistasis, hyposthenuria, hydrops, hypostrophe, hydaturia, hypersthenuria.

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