Hypostasis, hypostatic, or hypostatization (hypostatisation; from the Ancient Greek , "under state") may refer to: * Hypostasis (philosophy and religion), the essence or underlying reality ** Hypostasis (linguistics), personification of entities **

Hypostasis (literature) Hypostasis (from Greek ''hypo-'' "below" + ''stasis'' "standing") is the essence of metafiction, a rare, literary moment when characters in fiction become aware of their own fictional nature. Debut The debut of hypostasis in literature occurs in ...

, awareness by a fictional character that their world is fictional ** '' Hypostasis of the Archons'', a Gnostic text **

Hypostatic model of personality The hypostatic model of personality is 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 person ...

, a psychological model, or theory, of personality masks **

Hypostatic union ''Hypostatic union'' (from the Greek: ''hypóstasis'', "sediment, foundation, substance, subsistence") is a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one h ...

, a Christian concept * Hypostasis, a type of boss enemy in the video game '' Genshin Impact'' * Hypostasis (''

livor mortis Livor mortis (Latin: ''līvor'' – "bluish color, bruise", ''mortis'' – "of death"), postmortem lividity (Latin: ''postmortem'' – "after death", ''lividity'' – "black and blue"), hypostasis (Greek: ὑπό, ''hypo'', meaning "under, bene ...

''), corpse's discoloration *

Hypostatic abstraction Hypostatic abstraction in mathematical logic, also known as hypostasis or subjectal abstraction, is a formal operation that transforms a predicate Predicate or predication may refer to: * Predicate (grammar), in linguistics * Predication (phil ...

(mathematics and logic) *

Hypostatic gene A hypostatic gene is one whose phenotype is altered by the expression of an allele at a separate locus, in an epistasis event. Example: In labrador retrievers, the chocolate coat colour is a result of homozygosity for a gene that is epistatic to ...

, as a result of epistasis *

Holding current (electronics) The holding current (hypostatic) for electrical, electromagnetic, and electronic devices is the minimum current which must pass through a circuit in order for it to remain in the 'ON' state. The term can be applied to a single switch or to an entir ...

, or the ''hypostatic'' current *

Reification (fallacy) Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical ...

, where ''hypostasis'' identifies a reified thing, and ''hypostatization'' refers to the thought process *

Sediment Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand an ...

in a liquid, including: **

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