diff --git a/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py b/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py
index d5ad3304e129f..2d1551482171a 100644
--- a/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py
+++ b/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ def add_arguments(self, parser):
             help='Exit with a non-zero status if model changes are missing migrations.',
         )
         parser.add_argument(
-            '--structured', action='store_true', dest='structured_output',
-            help='Output only created migration filepaths to stdout; all other logging to stderr.',
+            '--separatelogs', action='store_true', dest='separate_logs',
+            help='Output only created migration filepaths to stdout; divert other logging to stderr.',
         )
 
     @no_translations
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ def handle(self, *app_labels, **options):
             raise CommandError('The migration name must be a valid Python identifier.')
         self.include_header = options['include_header']
         check_changes = options['check_changes']
-        self.structured_output = options['structured_output']
-        if self.structured_output:
+        self.separate_logs = options['separate_logs']
+        if self.separate_logs:
             self.log = self.stderr
         else:
             self.log = self.stdout
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ def write_migration_files(self, changes):
                     self.log.write('  %s\n' % self.style.MIGRATE_LABEL(migration_string))
                     for operation in migration.operations:
                         self.log.write('    - %s' % operation.describe())
-                    if self.structured_output:
+                    if self.separate_logs:
                         self.stdout.write(migration_string + '\n')
                 if not self.dry_run:
                     # Write the migrations file to the disk.
diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index bc73cad0c2a01..545c2e252c34d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -837,10 +837,10 @@ migrations are detected.
     connection was added. In that case, check for a consistent migration
     history is skipped.
 
-.. django-admin-option:: --structured
+.. django-admin-option:: --separatelogs
 
-Diverts log output of ``makemigrations`` to stderr and writes only paths of
-generated migration files to stdout.
+Diverts log output of ``makemigrations`` to ``stderr`` and writes only paths
+of generated migration files to ``stdout``.
 
 .. versionadded:: 4.0
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/4.0.txt b/docs/releases/4.0.txt
index b4e194f10280b..1a15d42fa2e5b 100644
--- a/docs/releases/4.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/4.0.txt
@@ -269,9 +269,9 @@ Management Commands
   As a consequence, ``readline`` is no longer loaded if running in *isolated*
   mode.
 
-* :djadmin:`makemigrations` can now be called with ``--structured`` to divert
-  logging to stderr and produce only structured output to stdout consisting
-  of the paths of generated migration files.
+* The :djadmin:`makemigrations` command can now be called with
+  :option:`--separatelogs` to divert logging to `stderr` and write only the
+  paths of generated migration files to stdout.
 
 Migrations
 ~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/tests/migrations/test_commands.py b/tests/migrations/test_commands.py
index 9aed195d0041f..1d0d669869045 100644
--- a/tests/migrations/test_commands.py
+++ b/tests/migrations/test_commands.py
@@ -1528,10 +1528,10 @@ class Meta:
         self.assertIn("model_name='sillymodel',", out.getvalue())
         self.assertIn("name='silly_char',", out.getvalue())
 
-    def test_makemigrations_structured_output(self):
+    def test_makemigrations_separate_logs(self):
         """
-        With structured=True, logging is diverted to self.stderr, and only the paths
-        of generated migration files are written to self.stdout.
+        With separatelogs=True, logging is diverted to stderr, and only the
+        paths of generated migration files are written to stdout.
         """
         class SillyModel(models.Model):
             silly_field = models.BooleanField(default=False)
@@ -1543,7 +1543,7 @@ class Meta:
         out = io.StringIO()
         err = io.StringIO()
         with self.temporary_migration_module(module='migrations.migrations'):
-            call_command('makemigrations', 'migrations', structured=True, stdout=out, stderr=err)
+            call_command('makemigrations', 'migrations', separatelogs=True, stdout=out, stderr=err)
         self.assertIn('/migrations/0001_initial.py\n', out.getvalue())
         self.assertIn('    - Create model ModelWithCustomBase\n', err.getvalue())
         self.assertNotIn('    - Create model ModelWithCustomBase\n', out.getvalue())