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HYPOSTASIS
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Irregular inflected form: hypostases
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hypostasis" is a kind of...):
center; centre; core; essence; gist; heart; heart and soul; inwardness; kernel; marrow; meat; nitty-gritty; nub; pith; substance; sum (the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience)
Domain category:
metaphysics (the philosophical study of being and knowing)
Derivation:
hypostatize (construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
Synonyms:
hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hypostasis" is a kind of...):
Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker (terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God)
Instance hyponyms:
Father; Father-God; Fatherhood (God when considered as the first person in the Trinity)
Logos; Son; Word (the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus))
Holy Ghost; Holy Spirit; Paraclete (the third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost)
Holonyms ("hypostasis" is a member of...):
Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity (the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The accumulation of blood in an organ
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("hypostasis" is a kind of...):
activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
Synonyms:
epistasis; hypostasis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("hypostasis" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
