diff --git a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
index 535a60ccca8d07..d68748767c5e37 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ methods will raise a :exc:`FrozenInstanceError` when invoked.
 
 There is a tiny performance penalty when using ``frozen=True``:
 :meth:`~object.__init__` cannot use simple assignment to initialize fields, and
-must use :meth:`~object.__setattr__`.
+must use :meth:`!object.__setattr__`.
 
 Inheritance
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