diff --git a/gensim/models/ldamodel.py b/gensim/models/ldamodel.py
index 77f7e68be9..9f41334d47 100755
--- a/gensim/models/ldamodel.py
+++ b/gensim/models/ldamodel.py
@@ -595,6 +595,10 @@ def update(self, corpus, chunksize=None, decay=None, offset=None,
 
         if update_every:
             updatetype = "online"
+            if passes == 1:
+                updatetype += " (single-pass)"
+            else:
+                updatetype += " (multi-pass)"
             updateafter = min(lencorpus, update_every * self.numworkers * chunksize)
         else:
             updatetype = "batch"