confection

Meanings

Noun

• A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
• The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
• The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
• An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
• Something, such as a garment or a decoration, seen as very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also seen as impractical or non-utilitarian.
• A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.

Verb

• To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.

Origin

• From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), from Latin (nominative cōnfectiō), from confectus, past participle of conficere, from com- + facere. Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500's.