diff --git a/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt b/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt
index 1ba6dd9fd3..01a4e86375 100644
--- a/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt
+++ b/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt
@@ -537,13 +537,40 @@ public class JavaParser {
    * specific restricted keyword.
    *
    * <p>Restricted keywords are:
-   * var, yield, record, sealed, permits
+   * var, yield, record, sealed, permits, "non" + "-" + "sealed"
    *
    * <p>enum and assert is used like restricted keywords, as they were not keywords
    * in the early java versions.
    */
-  private boolean isKeyword(String keyword) {
-    return getToken(1).kind == IDENTIFIER && getToken(1).image.equals(keyword);
+  private boolean isKeyword(String image) {
+    return isKeyword(1, image);
+  }
+
+  private boolean isKeyword(int index, String image) {
+      Token token = getToken(index);
+      return token.kind == IDENTIFIER && token.image.equals(image);
+  }
+
+  private boolean isToken(int index, int kind) {
+      return getToken(index).kind == kind;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Semantic lookahead which matches "non-sealed".
+   *
+   * <p>"non-sealed" cannot be a token, for several reasons:
+   * It is only a keyword with java15 preview+, it consists actually
+   * of several separate tokens, which are valid on their own.
+   */
+  private boolean isNonSealedModifier() {
+      if (isKeyword(1, "non") && isToken(2, MINUS) && isKeyword(3, "sealed")) {
+          Token nonToken = getToken(1);
+          Token minusToken = getToken(2);
+          Token sealedToken = getToken(3);
+          return nonToken.endColumn + 1 == minusToken.beginColumn
+            && minusToken.endColumn + 1 == sealedToken.beginColumn;
+      }
+      return false;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -1024,14 +1051,6 @@ TOKEN :
 | < GT: ">" >
 }
 
-// Note: New token need to be added at the very end in order to
-// keep (binary) compatibility with the generated token ids
-// see JavaParserConstants
-TOKEN :
-{
-  < NON_SEALED: "non-sealed" >
-}
-
 /*****************************************
  * THE JAVA LANGUAGE GRAMMAR STARTS HERE *
  *****************************************/
@@ -1104,7 +1123,7 @@ int Modifiers() #void:
   | "strictfp" { modifiers |= AccessNode.STRICTFP; }
   | "default" { modifiers |= AccessNode.DEFAULT; checkForBadDefaultImplementationUsage(); }
   | LOOKAHEAD({isKeyword("sealed")}) <IDENTIFIER> { modifiers |= AccessNode.SEALED; checkForSealedClassUsage(); }
-  | "non-sealed" { modifiers |= AccessNode.NON_SEALED; checkForSealedClassUsage(); }
+  | LOOKAHEAD({isNonSealedModifier()}) <IDENTIFIER> <MINUS> <IDENTIFIER> { modifiers |= AccessNode.NON_SEALED; checkForSealedClassUsage(); }
   | Annotation()
   )
  )*
diff --git a/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/Java15Test.java b/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/Java15Test.java
index 003c5072cc..867504ebd8 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/Java15Test.java
+++ b/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/Java15Test.java
@@ -71,4 +71,9 @@ public class Java15Test {
         java14.parse("class Foo { String s =\"a\\sb\"; }");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void sealedAndNonSealedIdentifiers() {
+        java15.parseResource("NonSealedIdentifier.java");
+        java15p.parseResource("NonSealedIdentifier.java");
+    }
 }
diff --git a/pmd-java/src/test/resources/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/jdkversiontests/java15/NonSealedIdentifier.java b/pmd-java/src/test/resources/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/jdkversiontests/java15/NonSealedIdentifier.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dbeebe9403
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-java/src/test/resources/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/jdkversiontests/java15/NonSealedIdentifier.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/*
+ * BSD-style license; for more info see http://pmd.sourceforge.net/license.html
+ */
+
+public class NonSealedIdentifier {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        int result = 0;
+        int non = 1;
+        // sealed is a valid identifier name in both Java15 and Java15 Preview
+        int sealed = 2;
+        // non-sealed is a valid subtraction expression in both Java15 and Java15 Preview
+        result = non-sealed;
+        System.out.println(result);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pmd-java/src/test/resources/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/jdkversiontests/java15p/LocalRecords.java b/pmd-java/src/test/resources/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/jdkversiontests/java15p/LocalRecords.java
index dd273baf5a..c359b99419 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/test/resources/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/jdkversiontests/java15p/LocalRecords.java
+++ b/pmd-java/src/test/resources/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/jdkversiontests/java15p/LocalRecords.java
@@ -34,4 +34,12 @@ public class LocalRecords {
     void methodWithLocalClass() {
         class MyLocalClass {}
     }
+
+    void methodWithLocalVarsNamedSealed() {
+        int result = 0;
+        int non = 1;
+        int sealed = 2;
+        result = non-sealed;
+        System.out.println(result);
+    }
 }