autonomous vs individual

autonomous

adj
  • Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. 

  • Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently. 

  • Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject). 

individual

adj
  • Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person. 

  • Not divisible without losing its identity. 

  • Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one. 

noun
  • An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class. 

  • A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people. 

  • An element belonging to a population. 

  • A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation. 

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