Confection
noun
A sweet food or dessert, usually with sugar, and often baked or cooked.
She loves the smell of fresh confection from the bakery.
Often appears as...
- sugar confection
- bakery confection
noun
A piece of art or craft that is made with great skill.
The sculpture was a confection of marble and bronze.
Often appears as...
- marble confection
- bronze confection
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Technical
noun
In medicine, a sweetened preparation of drugs.
The pharmacist replaced the bitter pill with a palatable confection
Often appears as...
- pharmacy confection
- medicinal confection
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A sweet food or dessert, usually with sugar, and often baked or cooked.
She loves the smell of fresh confection from the bakery.
Often appears as...
- sugar confection
- bakery confection
noun
A piece of art or craft that is made with great skill.
The sculpture was a confection of marble and bronze.
Often appears as...
- marble confection
- bronze confection
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In medicine, a sweetened preparation of drugs.
The pharmacist replaced the bitter pill with a palatable confection
Often appears as...
- pharmacy confection
- medicinal confection
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Variance
Confection varieties change with cultures; what is considered a confection in one country may not be in another.
Mochi is a popular confection in Japan, while chocolate fudge is a classic American sweet.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Baked
'Confection' often implies baked goods but can also refer to sweets like candies that aren't baked.
Gummy bears are a type of confection that's shaped in molds, not baked.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Context
Use 'confection' in casual settings, like describing goodies at a bakery or discussing desserts.
The party had a table filled with delicious confections for all to enjoy.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Variance
Confection varieties change with cultures; what is considered a confection in one country may not be in another.
Mochi is a popular confection in Japan, while chocolate fudge is a classic American sweet.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Baked
'Confection' often implies baked goods but can also refer to sweets like candies that aren't baked.
Gummy bears are a type of confection that's shaped in molds, not baked.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Context
Use 'confection' in casual settings, like describing goodies at a bakery or discussing desserts.
The party had a table filled with delicious confections for all to enjoy.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Variance
Confection varieties change with cultures; what is considered a confection in one country may not be in another.
Mochi is a popular confection in Japan, while chocolate fudge is a classic American sweet.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Baked
'Confection' often implies baked goods but can also refer to sweets like candies that aren't baked.
Gummy bears are a type of confection that's shaped in molds, not baked.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Context
Use 'confection' in casual settings, like describing goodies at a bakery or discussing desserts.
The party had a table filled with delicious confections for all to enjoy.
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When ideas have sex PIPE...
There was no progress, no innovation. It's an extraordinary phenomenon, but it's true. Whereas the object on the right is obsolete after five years. And there's another difference too, which is the object on the left is made from one substance. The object on the right is made from a confection of different substances,
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The "Willy Wonka" of...
rolls it's basically a chocolate confection that is infused with cannabis oil Tripp protects his THC treasure like gold we have a vault that would rival those banks here in the state of Colorado we have an excess of fifty thousand dollars in audio and video
Video examples
When ideas have sex PIPE...
There was no progress, no innovation. It's an extraordinary phenomenon, but it's true. Whereas the object on the right is obsolete after five years. And there's another difference too, which is the object on the left is made from one substance. The object on the right is made from a confection of different substances,
Video examples
The "Willy Wonka" of...
rolls it's basically a chocolate confection that is infused with cannabis oil Tripp protects his THC treasure like gold we have a vault that would rival those banks here in the state of Colorado we have an excess of fifty thousand dollars in audio and video
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Quote examples
Michael Wolff
American Author
Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection. You say what you have to say in the way you have to say it to give it media currency - and that's always far from the truth. Often, in fact, someone else says it for you. It's all planned. It's all rehearsed.
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Sarah Weinman
American Journalist
A Spy in the House', the first of Y. S. Lee's 'The Agency' novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.
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Steve Rushin
American Journalist
Golf mogul Donald Trump sports an arrangement of hair that is less a comb-over than a 'do-over, a candy-floss confection of gossamer wisps that comes off as the clumsiest cover-up since Watergate.
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Thomas Newman
American Composer
Sugarcoat the Galaxy' is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.
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Travis Knight
American Producer
We don't want to make little pop culture ephemera or confections, that sort of thing, and so 'ParaNorman' like 'Coraline' has something meaningful to say.
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
The second single from 'Purpose,' Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, 'Sorry' is an infectious confection - a Dorito for your ears.
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Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
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Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Quote examples
Michael Wolff
American Author
Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection. You say what you have to say in the way you have to say it to give it media currency - and that's always far from the truth. Often, in fact, someone else says it for you. It's all planned. It's all rehearsed.
Quote examples
Sarah Weinman
American Journalist
A Spy in the House', the first of Y. S. Lee's 'The Agency' novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.
Quote examples
Steve Rushin
American Journalist
Golf mogul Donald Trump sports an arrangement of hair that is less a comb-over than a 'do-over, a candy-floss confection of gossamer wisps that comes off as the clumsiest cover-up since Watergate.
Quote examples
Thomas Newman
American Composer
Sugarcoat the Galaxy' is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace.
Quote examples
Steve Erickson
American Novelist
All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.
Quote examples
Travis Knight
American Producer
We don't want to make little pop culture ephemera or confections, that sort of thing, and so 'ParaNorman' like 'Coraline' has something meaningful to say.
Quote examples
Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
The second single from 'Purpose,' Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, 'Sorry' is an infectious confection - a Dorito for your ears.
Quote examples
Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
Quote examples
Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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