additional vs redundant

additional

adj
  • Supplemental or added to something. 

noun
  • Something added. 

redundant

adj
  • Repetitive or needlessly wordy. 

  • Dismissed from employment because no longer needed. 

  • Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed. 

  • Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails. 

How often have the words additional and redundant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )