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Definition of hypostasis

(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
the accumulation of blood in an organ
the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene

Similar Words: epistasis

Hyponyms: Father, Father-God, Fatherhood, Son, Word, Logos, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit

Member Meronyms: Trinity, Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity, Sacred Trinity

Derivational Morphology: hypostatize, hypostatise

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