alone vs sui generis

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

sui generis

adj
  • By itself; of its own. 

  • In a class of its own; one of a kind. 

noun
  • A thing apart, an isolated specimen. 

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