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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
Synonyms:
food; food for thought; intellectual nourishment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("food for thought" is a kind of...):
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "food for thought"):
pabulum (insipid intellectual nourishment)