sum vs hypostasis

hypostasis vs sum

sum and hypostasis both are nouns.

sum is a verb but hypostasis is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sum	Yes	No	Yes	No
hypostasis	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hypostasis is a hyponym of sum; that is, hypostasis is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sum:

sum: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
hypostasis: (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality

Other hyponyms of sum include bare bones, haecceity, quiddity, quintessence, stuff.

sum (noun)	hypostasis (noun)
the whole amount	(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience	any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers	the accumulation of blood in an organ
the final aggregate	the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
a quantity of money

sum (verb)	hypostasis (verb)
determine the sum of
be a summary of

Difference between sum and hypostasis

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