individual vs separate

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. 

separate

adj
  • Not together (with); not united (to). 

  • Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else). 

verb
  • To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect. 

  • To divide (a thing) into separate parts. 

  • To cause (things or people) to be separate. 

  • To divide itself into separate pieces or substances. 

noun
  • A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers. 

  • Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants. 

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