hypostases in English

noun
1
the accumulation of fluid or blood in the lower parts of the body or organs under the influence of gravity, as occurs in cases of poor circulation or after death.
2
an underlying reality or substance, as opposed to attributes or that which lacks substance.
And indeed by referring to those situations, Levinas wants to detect the specific features of an hypostasis opposed to all ek-stasis.

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1. 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe these three Archical hypostases of the Platonic trinity, though looked upon as substances distinct from each other, and subordinate , yet are they frequently taken …