Definitions for hypostasis

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hypostasis hy·pos·ta·sis

Spelling: [hahy-pos-tuh-sis, hi-]

IPA: /haɪˈpɒs tə sɪs, hɪ-/

Hypostasis is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 423 anagrams from letters in hypostasis (ahiopsssty).

Definitions for hypostasis

noun

1. Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
2. Theology. one of the three real and distinct substances in the one undivided substance or essence of God. a person of the Trinity. the one personality of Christ in which His two natures, human and divine, are united.
3. Medicine/Medical. the accumulation of blood or its solid components in parts of an organ or body due to poor circulation. such sedimentation, as in a test tube.

Origin of hypostasis

1580-90; Late Latin Greek hypóstasis that which settles at the bottom; substance, nature, essence, equivalent to hypo- hypo- + stásis standing,

Examples for hypostasis

This then he did by adding as third hypostasis the Aristotelian dynamic energy.

hypostasis the first actualization of first principle has no thought, vi.

Thus Athanasius and the Latins spoke of one hypostasis (essence) only.

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

First principle has no thought, the first actualization of a hypostasis, vi.

No, because all communities have at least three, in honour of the holy and triple hypostasis.

But was the pre-Christian Messiah ever identified with the hypostasis Wisdom?

The consequences of a hypostasis of the good are no less interesting than its causes.

The Logos of Philo has become an hypostasis, and walks upon the earth.

The tissue of the lungs showed considerable dema and hypostasis.