diff --git a/man2/nice.2 b/man2/nice.2
index 7bbab1e91..211e196fe 100644
--- a/man2/nice.2
+++ b/man2/nice.2
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ to the nice value for the calling process.
 (A higher nice value means a low priority.)
 Only the super\%user may specify a negative increment,
 or priority increase.
-The range for nice values is described in
-.BR getpriority (2).
+
+The range of the nice value is +19 (low priority) to \-20 (high priority).
+Attempts to set a nice value outside the range are clamped to the range.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, the new nice value is returned (but see NOTES below).
 On error, \-1 is returned, and