profoundness vs depth

profoundness and depth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
profoundness	Yes	No	No	No
depth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, depth is a hypernym of profoundness; that is, depth is a word with a broader meaning than profoundness:

Other hypernyms of profoundness include deepness.

As nouns, depth is a hypernym of profoundness; that is, depth is a word with a broader meaning than profoundness:

profoundness: intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
depth: degree of psychological or intellectual profundity

As nouns, profoundness and depth are synonyms defined as:

profoundness and depth: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

Other synonyms of profoundness include astuteness, deepness, profundity.

profoundness (noun)	depth (noun)
the quality of being physically deep	the extent downward or backward or inward
intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"	degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas	the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound	the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
extremeness of degree	(usually plural) a low moral state