poetical justice (English, noun)
expansion: poetical justice (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The idea that in a literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice punished.
tags: uncountable
qualifier: generally
glosses: Synonym of poetic justice (“the fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner”).
tags: broadly
uncountable
Forms: