hypostasis

1. (countable, uncountable)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 hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

   Hypostase

   ипоста́сьipostásʹ

   іпоста́сьipostásʹ

   any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united

2. (countable, uncountable)The underlying reality or substance of something.

   Hypostase

   гипо́стасисgipóstasis

   (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality

3. The underlying reality or substance of something.

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

4. (countable, uncountable)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.

5. (countable, uncountable)The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.

   Hypostase

   гипоста́зgipostáz

   the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene

6. (countable, uncountable)Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

7. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

   гипоста́зgipostáz

irregular