1.  confection(n = noun.food) sweet - a food rich in sugar;
is a kind of dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
has particulars: confectionery, confiture, sweetmeat, candy, confect, hardbake, chewing gum, gum, candied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, taffy apple, toffee apple, center, centre, comfit, maraschino, maraschino cherry, nonpareil

2.  confection(n = noun.act) concoction - the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components;
is a kind of creating from raw materials
Derived forms verb confect₂, verb confection₁

   confection(v = verb.creation) comfit, confect - make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected"
is one way to assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
Derived form noun confection₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  A composition of different materials. [1913 Webster]
"A new confection of mold." [1913 Webster]

2.  A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat. [1913 Webster]
"Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons." [1913 Webster]

3.  A composition of drugs. Shak. [1913 Webster]

4.  A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey. [1913 Webster]
" The pharmacopœias formerly made a distinction between conserves (made of fresh vegetable substances and sugar) and electuaries (medicinal substances combined with sirup or honey), but the distinction is now abandoned and all are called confections." [1913 Webster]

confection, n.
1 a dish or delicacy made with sweet ingredients.
2 mixing, compounding.
3 a fashionable or elaborate article of women's dress.

Derivative:
confectionary adj. (in sense 1).

Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L confectio -onis (as confect)

N  sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.