diff --git a/man2/clock_getres.2 b/man2/clock_getres.2
index 9d379f5ca..7e0270052 100644
--- a/man2/clock_getres.2
+++ b/man2/clock_getres.2
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ does.
 The acronym TAI refers to International Atomic Time.
 .TP
 .B CLOCK_MONOTONIC
-A nonsettable clock that represents monotonic time since\(emas described
+A nonsettable system-wide clock that
+represents monotonic time since\(emas described
 by POSIX\(em"some unspecified point in the past".
 On Linux, that point corresponds to the number of seconds that the system
 has been running since it was booted.