Hypostasis Definition

hī-pŏstə-sĭs
hypostases
noun
hypostases
The underlying, essential nature of a thing.
Webster's New World
A deposit or sediment.
Webster's New World
Something that has been hypostatized.
American Heritage
Any of the three persons of the Trinity, each person having the divine nature fully and equally.
Webster's New World
The masking or suppression of a gene by another gene that is not its allele.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Hypostasis

Noun

Singular:
hypostasis
Plural:
hypostases

Origin of Hypostasis

  • From ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupostasis, “sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ὑπό (hupo) + στάσις (stasis, “standing”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin from Greek hupostasis hupo- hypo- stasis a standing stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hypostasis Sentence Examples

  • It is rather a potential human individual, a nature not yet developed into a person or hypostasis.

  • Without going so far as to assert that Orpheus is a hypostasis of Dionysus, there is no doubt that a close connexion existed between them from very early times.

  • The hypostasis through which this takes place is the personal Logos through whose union with this potential man, in the womb of Mary, the potential man acquires a concrete reality, an individual existence.

  • He has, therefore, no hypostasis of himself but only in and through the Logos.

  • So man, both soul and body, is brought into unity with the Logos; there being then one hypostasis for both natures."

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