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
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Individual as a noun:
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
Examples:
"He is an unusual individual."
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Individual as a noun (legal):
A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
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Individual as a noun:
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
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Individual as a noun (statistics):
An element belonging to a population.
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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."
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Individual as an adjective:
Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Examples:
"'individual personal pension; individual cream cakes"
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Individual as an adjective:
Not divisible without losing its identity.
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Selfstanding as an adjective:
standing or existing in ones own power, ability or competence, non-reliant
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Selfstanding as an adjective:
individual; independent
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Selfstanding as an adjective (grammar):
lacking affixes, stem
Examples:
"selfstanding word"