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Meaning of "hypostasis" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPOSTASIS

From Late Latin: substance, from Greek hupostasis foundation, from huphistasthai to stand under, from hypo- + histanai to cause to stand.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPOSTASIS

hypostasis  [haɪˈpɒstəsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPOSTASIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypostasis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPOSTASIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hypostasis

Hypostatic or Hypostasis may refer to: ▪ Hypostatic abstraction ▪ Hypostasis, personification of entities ▪ Hypostatic gene, as a result of epistasis ▪ Hypostasis, the essence, or underlying reality ▪ Hypostasis, Livor mortis ▪ Hypostasis, a psychological model, or theory, of personality masks ▪ Hypostatic union, Christian concept ▪ Holding current known as the hypostatic ▪ Sediment in a liquid, including: ▪ Sediment#Dregs...

Definition of hypostasis in the English dictionary

The first definition of hypostasis in the dictionary is the essential nature of a substance as opposed to its attributes. Other definition of hypostasis is any of the three persons of the Godhead, together constituting the Trinity. Hypostasis is also the one person of Christ in which the divine and human natures are united.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPOSTASIS


amebiasis
əmiːˈbaɪəsɪs
apocatastasis
ˌæpəʊkəˈtæstəsɪs
atelectasis
ˌætəˈlɛktəsɪs
bronchiectasis
ˌbrɒŋkɪˈɛktəsɪs
candidiasis
ˌkændɪˈdaɪəsɪs
catastasis
kəˈtæstəsɪs
diastasis
daɪˈæstəsɪs
diocese
ˈdaɪəsɪs
emphasis
ˈɛmfəsɪs
entasis
ˈɛntəsɪs
epistasis
ɪˈpɪstəsɪs
epitasis
ɪˈpɪtəsɪs
giardiasis
ˌdʒaɪɑːˈdaɪəsɪs
iconostasis
ˌaɪkəʊˈnɒstəsɪs
metamorphosis
ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs
metastasis
mɪˈtæstəsɪs
protasis
ˈprɒtəsɪs
psoriasis
səˈraɪəsɪs
telangiectasis
tɪˌlændʒɪˈɛktəsɪs
transgenesis
trænzˈdʒɛnəsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPOSTASIS

hypospadias
hypostases
hypostasisation
hypostasise
hypostasization
hypostasize
hypostatic
hypostatic union
hypostatical
hypostatically
hypostatisation
hypostatise
hypostatization
hypostatize
hyposthenia
hyposthenic
hypostome
hypostress
hypostrophe
hypostyle

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPOSTASIS

amoebiasis
anabasis
anastasis
antiperistasis
bacteriostasis
basis
cholestasis
ectasis
elephantiasis
haemostasis
hemostasis
homeostasis
homoeostasis
mydriasis
oasis
onchocerciasis
stasis
trial basis
trypanosomiasis
urolithiasis

Synonyms and antonyms of hypostasis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypostasis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPOSTASIS

Find out the translation of hypostasis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hypostasis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypostasis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

原质
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hipóstasis
570 millions of speakers

English

hypostasis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अभिभाव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أقنوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ипостась
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hipóstase
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hypostasis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hypostase
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hypostasis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hypostase
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

下位
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

만약 삼위 일체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hypostasis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hypostasis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உபபரநிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हायपोस्टासिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hipostaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ipostasi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hipostaza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

іпостась
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ipostază
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπόσταση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hipostase
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hypostasis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hypostasis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypostasis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOSTASIS»

The term «hypostasis» is regularly used and occupies the 106.223 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOSTASIS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hypostasis» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hypostasis» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypostasis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPOSTASIS»

Discover the use of hypostasis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypostasis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lawyers Guide to Forensic Medicine
HYPOSTASIS. (POST-MORTEM. LIVIDITY). Gravitational settling of the blood after death. Hypostasis is more descriptive, 'lividity' being an older and inaccurate term. When the circulation ceases at death, the veins and the partly contracted ...
Knight, 1998
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Forensic Medicine: Clinical and Pathological Aspects
Clinical and Pathological Aspects Jason Payne-James, Anthony Busuttil, William S. Smock. Table 9.3 Lividity: causes, consequences and phenomena checked on the body Figure 9.7 (A) Zonal segmentation of hypostasis: partly dark blue,.
Jason Payne-James, Anthony Busuttil, William S. Smock, 2003
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Person, Grace, and God
For the first time,these previously synonymous terms,ousia and hypostasis, are significantly differentiated by using hypostasis to refer to the distinctive aspect of each member of the Trinity and ousia to refer to that which is common.
Philip A. Rolnick, 2007
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English
Introduced by ROGER A. BULLARD Translated by BENTLEY LAYTON The Hypostasis of the Archons ("Reality of the Rulers") is an anonymous tractate presenting an esoteric interpretation of Genesis 1-6, partially in the form of a revelation ...
James James McConkey Robinson, Richard Smith, Coptic Gnostic Library Project, 1996
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Essential Forensic Biology
Ifthe person is lyingon their back, hypostasis will develop in the back and those body surfaces adjacent to theground whilst if the person is hangingby their neck, pronounced hypostasis will develop in their hands, forearms and lower legs.
Alan Gunn, 2011
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Jesus the Christ
The lexiographical study concerns the two words prosopon and hypostasis. The term prosopon originally meant 'face', 'countenance', and also the actor's mask and the role he plays. In the Septuagint it is often used to denote the face of God.
Walter Kasper, 1977
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Philosophy for Understanding Theology
This then is the hypostasis, or “understanding;” not the indefinite conception of the essence or substance, which, because what is signified is general, finds no “ standing,” but the conception which by means of the expressed peculiarities gives ...
Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted, 2007
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Christ in Christian Tradition
and one hypostasis came from the two, but [the union was] less in the natures, and therefore two also remained after the union?75 The 'lesser' union in the natures is indeed, according to Leontius of Jerusalem, to be conceived in such a way ...
Aloys Grillmeier, 1996
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The Spirit's Relation to the Risen Lord in Paul: An ...
portrait of wisdom in Proverbs 8 goes beyond a merely poetic personification of an abstract concept and maintain that here Wisdom is a hypostasis. It is very important to differentiate between a hypostasis and a literary personification. What is ...
Mehrdad Fatehi, 2000
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The Lamb of God
For this reason, the hypostasis of the Logos, of the heavenly Man, could become the hypostasis of the creaturely man and make him the true God-Man, realizing his original Divine-Humanity. The hypostasis of the Logos is human from all ...
Sergius Bulgakov, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPOSTASIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hypostasis is used in the context of the following news items.
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Money stopped to serve as commodity equivalent: US and EU plan …
... whole world watches the second season of the Game of Grexit and it changes our idea about the world and first of all its monetary hypostasis. «Azerbaijan Business Center, Jul 15»
2
Evangelizing Metaphysics
For Aristotle, hypostasis meant the individual thing that persists through accidental changes. It was an important term in Neoplatonism and later ... «First Things, May 15»
3
Scottish artist plans art featuring dead bodies of two donors
One of the results of hypostasis or livor mortis, where the body, after death, retains imprint from the objects it touches, would then take place. «Herald Scotland, Apr 15»
4
The Newest Doctor of the Church
Much turns on the proper fifth-century translation of Greek words like “physis” and “hypostasis.” For centuries, however, the two sides ... «First Things, Feb 15»
5
Gnostics and Platonists
-The word hypostasis is rooted in Platonism, meaning the underlying reality or substance of something. -The process of Bible translation also ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
6
Must the Stretching Stop?
... perichoresis is like other terms taken up into Trinitarian theology - hypostasis and ousia were not the same after the Cappadocians got ahold ... «First Things, Feb 15»
7
What Does Ecclesiology Mean?
The church uses as its foundation the teachings of the Bible, especially focusing on the essentials like Jesus' virgin birth, Jesus' hypostasis ... «Patheos, Dec 14»
8
Watch what happens to your body when you die
It also gets pulled down by the force of gravity in a process called post-mortem hypostasis or livor mortis. 'Without circulation your body ... «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
9
HOCNA Holds Annual Clergy Synaxis
I am fully aware that words such as physis, ousia, hypostasis, ... The source of the Divinity of the Son and the Spirit is the hypostasis of the ... «NFTU, Oct 14»
10
Settling bank dues doesn't end criminal case, says SC
... a “no due certificate” and enjoy the benefit of quashing of the criminal proceedings on the hypostasis that nothing more remains to be done. «Free Press Journal, Sep 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Hypostasis [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hypostasis>. May 2024 ».
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