pabulum

n.

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

[Latin pābulum. Sense 2, by confusion with PABLUM.]

noun

1. 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. See ingestion.
2. That which sustains the mind or spirit: aliment, bread, food, nourishment, nutriment, pap, sustenance. See care for/neglect, ingestion.

Food or aliment.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: any substance that can be used as food
  Synonyms: comestible, edible, eatable, victual, victuals

Meaning #2: insipid intellectual nourishment

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - næring

Nederlands (Dutch)
voedsel (figuurlijk), saaie kost

Français (French)
n. - (US) niaiseries, aliment semi-liquide (rare)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Nahrung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τροφή

Italiano (Italian)
nutrimento, alimento, cibo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - alimento (m), pasto (m), sustento (m)

Русский (Russian)
пища, пища для ума

Español (Spanish)
n. - alimento, pábulo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - barnmat, näring, (mental pabulum andlig spis)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
食物, 精神食粮, 营养

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 食物, 精神食糧, 營養

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 영양물, 패블럼(유아용 음식)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 食物, 心のかて

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) غذاء, زاد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בידור תפל או משעמם, מזון, מזון רוחני‬

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