Hypostasis
# 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
