C2 noun #82,267 most common

hypostasis

UK /haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/ | US /haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/

A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

hypostasis in 30 Seconds

  • (noun) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
  • (noun) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
  • (noun) The underlying reality or substance of something.

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
  2. 2
    noun The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
  3. 3
    noun The underlying reality or substance of something.
  4. 4
    noun The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
  5. 5
    noun Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

Synonyms

subsistence
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