Since Irony is the wrong word...what is the correct term?
I'm writing a blog entry about something and I'm putting in a bit where I'm describing my children doing something that I once did when I was their age.
I'm putting in a joke to my mother (who reads my blog) telling her to stop laughing (because one of my children is doing exactly what I used to do to annoy the heck out of her) and that I'm aware of the...[blank]...of the situation.
I know irony is not the correct word as irony is the defined as incongruity of an expected outcome and the actual one. For example it would be ironic to be in a park bend over to pick up the traditional good luck charm of a four-leafed clover only to stand up and have the misfortune of a mis-aimed frisbee breaking your nose.
So if irony is not the correct word...what would be a better and more correct choice?
Madame M2013-02-13T02:02:59Z
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I think it might be situational irony -- you never expected that you'd have a kid who would annoy you the same way you annoyed your mom, so it is ironic, in a sense.
"karmic retribution" sounds a little too dramatic. So does "cosmic revenge". Or the cosmic justice of DNA (-:. (-: Sins of the father/mother revisited would be funny, but backassward.
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What goes around comes around? (that would require re-wording)
I think the closest is poetic justice
facetious deservedness Entertainment value
Edit: I have seen "irony" used in a blank space like yours before. It's not precisely correct, but itt's close, would be understood, and most people wouldn't even give it a second look.