phasis

[ fey-sis ]

/ ˈfeɪ sɪs /

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noun, plural pha·ses

[fey-seez]. /ˈfeɪ siz/.

a manner, stage, or aspect of being; phase.

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Origin of phasis

1650–60; <New Latin <Greek phásis appearance, equivalent to pha- (base of phaínein to show) + -sis-sis

He possessed qualities, which, under a different phasis of society, would have developed themselves in marked acts of benevolence.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft
The Indian is to be viewed here, as elsewhere, as being in the highest state of his physical, not of his mental phasis.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft
The enormous apparatus of literature at the present time is suitable only to a peculiar phasis and manner of existence.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6|Various
I had seen human nature in a new phasis; and I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me.
Life of Robert Burns|Thomas Carlyle

When two ages are in the same phasis, they will excite the same humours, and produce the same coincidences and combinations.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems|Walter Savage Landor