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Definition of hypostases:

(n) : (theology) 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’).
(n) : (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something.
(n) : (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
(n) : (psychology) 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.
(n) : (linguistics) A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
(n) : Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
Definition of hypostases:

(n) : (theology) 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’).
(n) : (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something.
(n) : (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
(n) : (psychology) 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.
(n) : (linguistics) A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
(n) : Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
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