pabulum
\ PAB-yuh-luhm \ , noun;
1.material for intellectual nourishment.
2.something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
3.pablum.
Quotes:
He had two papers to provide for; papers diverse in character, papers published a hundred and fifty miles apart, papers to which expectant thousands looked for their weekly supply of mental pabulum .
-- James Parton, "The Life of Horace Greeley ," 1868
Their corrupting fantasies had deluded the entire educated caste, providing a dangerous pabulum that had poisoned a spoon-fed intelligentsia.
-- J.G. Ballard," Millennium People ," 2003
Origin:
Pabulum is derived from the Latin verb pāscere meaning "to feed." The suffix -bulum is used in formation of instrumental nouns. Pabulum entered English in the mid-1600s.
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