HYPOSTASIS Synonyms

• a new personification of a familiar idea

• a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept

• giving concrete form to an abstract concept

• that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

• (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ

• a new personification of a familiar idea

• time passed in a particular bodily form

• the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

• a clear appearance

• a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing

• an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit)

• expression without words

• a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)

• the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

• a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

• the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.

• the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

• a particular type of thing

• a person who represents an abstract quality

• representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

• the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

• the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the idea that is intended

• material of a particular kind or constitution

• considerable capital (wealth or income)

• content communicating a message; what something is about

• the property of holding together and retaining its shape

• a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties

• the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene

• minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting

• a means of surviving

• the state of existing in reality; having substance

• any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united