Hypostasis

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Hypostasis, hypostases, hypostatic, hypostatization, or hypostatisation ( ) may refer to: * Hypostasis (philosophy and religion), the underlying, fundamental state or substance that supports all of reality ** Hypostasis (linguistics), a relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification of an entity or quality ** Hypostasis (literature), a literary moment when characters in fiction become aware of their own fictional nature ** Hypostasis of the Archons, a Gnostic text ** Hypostatic model of personality, a view 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 ** Hypostatic union, a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one hypostasis * Hypostasis, a type of boss in the video game Genshin Impact * Hypostatic abstraction, a formal operation that transforms a predicate into a relation * Hypostatic gene, a gene whose phenotype is altered by the expression of an allele at a separate locus, in an epistasis event * Holding current (electronics), the minimum current which must pass through a circuit in order for it to remain in the 'ON' state * Livor mortis, the second stage of death and one of the signs of death…

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