Healing
Healing noun - The process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength.
Joy
Joy noun - A feeling or state of well-being and contentment.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- And should the player show her a small kindness by giving her a hair ornament, the Doll becomes so overwhelmed with the unfamiliar emotion of joy, that she sheds a stone tear with healing properties, which the flavor text says is not supposed to be possible.
Source: Moe / Video Games - Pokémon: Where she gets funding is unknown, but Nurse Joy is able to provide healing for Pokémon free of charge, along with food and lodging for trainers, even those who aren't "heroes".
Source: Hospitality for Heroes -
Is Serious Business: All the Nurse Joys ask this of Fire/Leaf after healing your pokemon: Please don't come back Pet the Dog: If Fire/Leaf loses a pokemon battle the Nurse Joy will encourage them and ask them to come again at anytime.
Source: Video Game / Pokémon False Red
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