hypostasis

hypostasis has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
• n.. Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• n.. Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies.
• n.. That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
• n.. (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
• n.. any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
• n.. the accumulation of blood in an organ
• n.. the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene