poetic justice

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (uncountable) Synonym of poetical justice (“the idea that in a literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice punished”).
2. (broadly, uncountable) The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.

Sinonieme

just deserts

retributive justice

Vertalings

justice

bonne justice

justice idéale

justice poétique

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pəʊˌɛtɪk ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/

Etimologie (Engels)

From poetic + justice, a variant of poetical justice, coined by the English literary critic Thomas Rymer (c. 1643 – 1713) in the work The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider’d and Examin’d (1678): see the quotation.