hypostasis

noun7

1. •
   The underlying reality or substance of something.

   • Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges". — 1975
2. •
   A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
3. •
   The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his ‘nature(s)’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).

   • What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis? — 1985
4. •
   Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

   • I am, of course, excluding the hypostasis produced by his having lain a whole week face downward in the cellar. That, naturally, is all in the front part of the body. — 1937
5. •
   The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.

   • When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis’ of the suppressed gene) is used. — 1997
6. •
   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.
7. •
   (no longer used) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

   • Phi[sitian]. I view’d your vrine, and the Hipostates ^([sic – meaning Hipostasis]) / Thick and obscure doth make your danger great, […] — 1587