diff --git a/doc/api/crypto.md b/doc/api/crypto.md
index a40178db22..79c7a3c733 100644
--- a/doc/api/crypto.md
+++ b/doc/api/crypto.md
@@ -1540,7 +1540,8 @@ console.log(
   `${buf.length} bytes of random data: ${buf.toString('hex')}`);
 ```
 
-The `crypto.randomBytes()` method will block until there is sufficient entropy.
+The `crypto.randomBytes()` method will not complete until there is
+sufficient entropy available.
 This should normally never take longer than a few milliseconds. The only time
 when generating the random bytes may conceivably block for a longer period of
 time is right after boot, when the whole system is still low on entropy.