hypostasis

Other forms of hypostasis

plural

hypostases

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypostasis

What does hypostasis mean?

hypostasis means "the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hypostasis?

hypostasis has 4 syllables: hy-po-sta-sis. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for hypostasis?

Close synonyms include epistasis, hypostasis of Christ. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hypostasis a common word?

hypostasis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.