individual vs noun

individual

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. 

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

noun
  • A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. 

  • An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied. 

verb
  • To convert a word to a noun. 

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