The difference between Individual and Selfstanding

When used as adjectives, individual means relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one, whereas selfstanding means standing or existing in ones own power, ability or competence, non-reliant.


Individual is also noun with the meaning: a person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

check bellow for the other definitions of Individual and Selfstanding

  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.

  1. Selfstanding as an adjective:

    standing or existing in ones own power, ability or competence, non-reliant

  2. Selfstanding as an adjective:

    individual; independent

  3. Selfstanding as an adjective (grammar):

    lacking affixes, stem

    Examples:

    "selfstanding word"