pabulum

pab·u·lum

P0001600 (păb′yə-ləm)n.1. A substance that gives nourishment; food.2. Intellectual material that is bland, trite, or insipid; pablum: "TV ... gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum" (Richard Corliss).

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[Latin pābulum; see pā- in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, by confusion with pablum.]

pabulum

(ˈpæbjʊləm) n1. food2. food for thought, esp when bland or dull[C17: from Latin, from pascere to feed]

pab•u•lum

(ˈpæb yə ləm)

n. 1. something that nourishes; food. 2. intellectual nourishment. 3. a soft, bland cereal for infants. [1670–80; < Latin pābulum food, nourishment =pā(scere) to feed + -bulum n. suffix of instrument]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pabulum - any substance that can be used as foodcomestible, eatable, edible, victual, victualsfood, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissuetuck - eatables (especially sweets)
	2.	pabulum - insipid intellectual nourishmentfood for thought, intellectual nourishment, food - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

pabulum

noun1. Something fit to be eaten:aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual.Slang: chow, eats, grub.2. That which sustains the mind or spirit:aliment, bread, food, nourishment, nutriment, pap, sustenance.

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