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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:
See also
- Anthropomorphism (personification, hypostatization), regarding or treating something as having human qualities
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