diff --git a/command/apply.go b/command/apply.go
index 76dea35b8..696fc00c7 100644
--- a/command/apply.go
+++ b/command/apply.go
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Options:
 
   -no-color              If specified, output won't contain any color.
 
-  -parallelism=n         Limit the number of concurrent operations.
+  -parallelism=n         Limit the number of parallel resource operations.
                          Defaults to 10.
 
   -refresh=true          Update state prior to checking for differences. This