mind candy

noun

Pleasurable diversions; entertainment that serves no higher purpose.

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Meanings

nounmind candy (uncountable)
  1. slanguncountablePleasurable diversions; entertainment that serves no higher purpose.

    Ray was her fantasy, her mind-candy, as were her plans for his seduction.

    2010, Alison Kent, Bound to Happen, →ISBN, page 18
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    I read Mysteries (in which I include all the sub-classes of police dramas, detective novels and old-style who-dun-its) because, like good food and drink, I damn well like them; they pass the time pleasantly; they are mind-candy;

    2008, Cate Garrison, Choice Cuts of Lamb, →ISBN, page 119

    The world will offer you eye candy, ear candy, mind candy. . . any and all diversion to keep you from initializing the Covenant with the Source

    2009, Nicholas Karapondo, The Pen: A Sonata and Fugue on the Eternal State of Being, →ISBN, page 581

    Synonyms: brain candy

Synonyms & antonyms

nounPleasurable diversions; entertainment that serves no higher purpose.

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brain candy

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

mind candy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mind%20candy

MLA

“mind candy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mind%20candy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mind candy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mind%20candy.

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