pabulum defined

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Noun

1.

intellectual nourishment - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking food for thought, food cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned pabulum - insipid intellectual nourishment

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1. A substance that gives nourishment; food.

2. Intellectual material that is bland, trite, or insipid; pablum

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Related words

Synonyms

food for thought

Hypernyms (*)

cognitive content, content, mental object

Hyponyms (*)

pabulum

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In my own little world, I understand pabulum tidbits of intellectual nourishment, non-arbitrary "fun-facts"...tidbits of ripe knowledge...choice morsels of serious-musings...insights/growth