The difference between Collective and Individual

When used as nouns, collective means a farm owned by a collection of people, whereas individual means a person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

When used as adjectives, collective means formed by gathering or collecting, whereas individual means relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.


check bellow for the other definitions of Collective and Individual

  1. Collective as an adjective:

    formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated

    Examples:

    "the collective body of a nation"

  2. Collective as an adjective:

    tending to collect; forming a collection

  3. Collective as an adjective:

    having plurality of origin or authority

  4. Collective as an adjective (grammar):

    expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form

  5. Collective as an adjective (obsolete):

    deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

  1. Collective as a noun:

    a farm owned by a collection of people

  2. Collective as a noun (especially, in communist countries):

    one of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community

  3. Collective as a noun (grammar):

    a collective noun or name

  4. Collective as a noun (by extension):

    a group dedicated to a particular cause or interest

  1. Individual as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "He is an unusual individual."

  2. Individual as a noun (legal):

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

  3. Individual as a noun:

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

  4. Individual as a noun (statistics):

    An element belonging to a population.

  1. Individual as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one."

  2. Individual as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "'individual personal pension; individual cream cakes"

  3. Individual as an adjective:

    Not divisible without losing its identity.