poetic justice

Etymology
From, a variant of , ( – 1713) in the work The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider’d and Examin’d (1678): see the quotation.

Noun

 * 1)  The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.
 * 1)  The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.
 * 1)  The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.
 * 1)  The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.
 * 1)  The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.
 * 1)  The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.
 * 1)  The fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner.

Translations

 * Arabic: عدالة شعرية
 * Esperanto: poezia justo
 * Finnish: runollinen oikeudenmukaisuus
 * French: justice immanente
 * Galician: xustiza poética
 * Georgian: პოეტური სამართლიანობა
 * Hebrew: צדק פואטי
 * Italian: giustizia poetica
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: заслу́жена ка́зна
 * Malayalam:
 * Persian: عدالت شاعرانه
 * Polish: poetycka sprawiedliwość
 * Portuguese: justiça poética
 * Swedish: poetisk rättvisa