diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py b/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py
index 88323e5304cc4..f4df4fbb54827 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py
@@ -203,10 +203,10 @@ def concat(
         Check whether the new concatenated axis contains duplicates. This can
         be very expensive relative to the actual data concatenation.
     sort : bool, default False
-        Sort non-concatenation axis if it is not already aligned. One exception to
-        this is when the non-concatentation axis is a DatetimeIndex and join='outer'
-        and the axis is not already aligned. In that case, the non-concatenation
-        axis is always sorted lexicographically.
+        Sort non-concatenation axis. One exception to this is when the
+        non-concatentation axis is a DatetimeIndex and join='outer' and the axis is
+        not already aligned. In that case, the non-concatenation axis is always
+        sorted lexicographically.
     copy : bool, default True
         If False, do not copy data unnecessarily.