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Hypostasis

Underlying reality: in Plotinus, the three primary realities of the One, Intellect and Soul.

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

Hypostasis means substance or underlying reality. Plotinus’s followers spoke of three hypostases: the One, Intellect and Soul, each generated from the one above. In Christian theology the word came to mean a person of the Trinity, three hypostases in one essence.