diff --git a/Doc/howto/enum.rst b/Doc/howto/enum.rst
index 5260c2ca4add47..f4eb20ffa7c918 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/enum.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/enum.rst
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ Equality comparisons are defined though::
     >>> Color.BLUE == Color.BLUE
     True
 
-Comparisons against non-enumeration values will always compare not equal
+Comparisons against non-enumeration values will always return ``False``
 (again, :class:`IntEnum` was explicitly designed to behave differently, see
 below)::