Hypostasis

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Hypostasis, hypostatic, or hypostatization (hypostatisation; from the Ancient Greek ὑπόστᾰσις, "under state") may refer to:

• Hypostasis (philosophy and religion), the essence or underlying reality
  • Hypostasis (linguistics), personification of entities
  • Hypostasis (literature), awareness by a fictional character that their world is fictional
  • Hypostasis of the Archons, a Gnostic text
  • Hypostatic model of personality, a psychological model, or theory, of personality masks
  • Hypostatic union, a Christian concept
• Hypostasis, a type of boss enemy in the video game Genshin Impact
• Hypostasis (livor mortis), corpse's discoloration
• Hypostatic abstraction (mathematics and logic)
• Hypostatic gene, as a result of epistasis
• Holding current (electronics), or the hypostatic current
• Reification (fallacy), where hypostasis identifies a reified thing, and hypostatization refers to the thought process
• Sediment in a liquid, including:
  • Sediment § Dregs

• Anthropomorphism (personification, hypostatization), regarding or treating something as having human qualities

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