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noun
A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
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’).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
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noun
The underlying reality or substance of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The underlying reality or substance of something.
A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The underlying reality or substance of something.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, psychology, sciences
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noun
The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
noun
any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hypostasis of Christ
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Broader terms: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
Narrower terms: Father, Father-God, Fatherhood, Son, Word, Logos, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Paraclete
noun
the accumulation of blood in an organ
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
noun
the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: epistasis
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Broader terms: organic process, biological process
History
From Ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis, “sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + στάσις (stásis, “standing”). Morphologically hypo- + -stasis.
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