autonomous vs self-contained

autonomous

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

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

  • 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). 

self-contained

adj
  • Wrapped up in oneself; reserved. 

  • Not requiring external or additional support; complete in itself. 

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