diff --git a/deepspeed/ops/adam/cpu_adam.py b/deepspeed/ops/adam/cpu_adam.py
index 1ffaf873f4e9..10b8c15f970b 100755
--- a/deepspeed/ops/adam/cpu_adam.py
+++ b/deepspeed/ops/adam/cpu_adam.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def __init__(self,
                 algorithm from the paper `On the Convergence of Adam and Beyond`_
                 (default: False) NOT SUPPORTED in DeepSpeed CPUAdam!
             adamw_mode: select between Adam and AdamW implementations (default: AdamW)
-            full_precision_optimizer_states: creates momentum and variance in full precision regardless of
+            fp32_optimizer_states: creates momentum and variance in full precision regardless of
                         the precision of the parameters (default: True)
         """