individual vs plural

individual

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

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

  • Not divisible without losing its identity. 

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. 

plural

adj
  • Consisting of or containing more than one of something. 

  • Pluralistic. 

  • In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual. 

noun
  • A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder. 

  • The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something. 

  • A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. 

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