diff --git a/framework/doc/content/source/userobject/RenormalizeVector.md b/framework/doc/content/source/userobject/RenormalizeVector.md
index ee55ded5bd85..21d0ab075be3 100644
--- a/framework/doc/content/source/userobject/RenormalizeVector.md
+++ b/framework/doc/content/source/userobject/RenormalizeVector.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 !syntax description /UserObjects/RenormalizeVector
 
-This user object can renormalize the solution for a set of variables, taking each variable as the component of a vector and scaling the variables to obtain the user specified L2-norm.
+This user object can pointwise renormalize the solution for a set of variables, taking each variable as the component of a vector and scaling the variables to obtain the user specified L2-norm.
 
 ## Applications
 
diff --git a/framework/src/userobject/RenormalizeVector.C b/framework/src/userobject/RenormalizeVector.C
index c2a893f6c241..87c9e969be30 100644
--- a/framework/src/userobject/RenormalizeVector.C
+++ b/framework/src/userobject/RenormalizeVector.C
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ InputParameters
 RenormalizeVector::validParams()
 {
   InputParameters params = GeneralUserObject::validParams();
-  params.addClassDescription("Renormalize the solution of a set of variables comprising a vector");
+  params.addClassDescription(
+      "Pointwise renormalize the solution of a set of variables comprising a vector");
   params.addCoupledVar("v", "Variables comprising the vector");
   params.addParam<Real>("norm", 1.0, "Desired norm for the coupled variable vector");
   return params;