title: Hypostasis
text: # Hypostasis
  
  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
  