pabulum

(pabyo̵̅o̅ ləm, -yə-)

noun

  1. food or sustenance
  2. nourishment for the mind
  3. Pablum

Origin: L: see food

See pabulum in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A substance that gives nourishment; food.
  2. Insipid intellectual nourishment: “TV . . . gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum” (Richard Corliss).

Origin:

Origin: Latin pābulum; see pā- in Indo-European roots

Origin: . Sense 2, by confusion with pablum

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