diff --git a/stdlib/2.7/sys.pyi b/stdlib/2.7/sys.pyi
index 8bd920fad..a1c0247dd 100644
--- a/stdlib/2.7/sys.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2.7/sys.pyi
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def getcheckinterval() -> int: ...  # deprecated
 def getdefaultencoding() -> str: ...
 def getdlopenflags() -> int: ...
 def getfilesystemencoding() -> Union[str, None]: ...
-def getrefcount(object) -> int: ...
+def getrefcount(arg: Any) -> int: ...
 def getrecursionlimit() -> int: ...
 def getsizeof(obj: object, default: int = ...) -> int: ...
 def getprofile() -> None: ...
diff --git a/stdlib/3/sys.pyi b/stdlib/3/sys.pyi
index b3ba22aee..accaadf0a 100644
--- a/stdlib/3/sys.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/3/sys.pyi
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def getcheckinterval() -> int: ...  # deprecated
 def getdefaultencoding() -> str: ...
 def getdlopenflags() -> int: ...  # Unix only
 def getfilesystemencoding() -> str: ...  # cannot return None
-def getrefcount(object) -> int: ...
+def getrefcount(arg: Any) -> int: ...
 def getrecursionlimit() -> int: ...
 
 @overload