diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 68c8118ec..0949ae7e2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ Features added
 * LaTeX: support rendering (not in math, yet) of Greek and Cyrillic Unicode
   letters in non-Cyrillic document even with ``'pdflatex'`` as
   :confval:`latex_engine` (refs: #5645)
+* #5660: The ``versionadded``, ``versionchanged`` and ``deprecated`` directives
+  are now generated with their own specific CSS classes
+  (``added``, ``changed`` and ``deprecated``, respectively) in addition to the
+  generic ``versionmodified`` class.
+
 
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
diff --git a/sphinx/domains/changeset.py b/sphinx/domains/changeset.py
index 21626ba35..4a515d2cc 100644
--- a/sphinx/domains/changeset.py
+++ b/sphinx/domains/changeset.py
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ versionlabels = {
     'deprecated':     _('Deprecated since version %s'),
 }
 
+versionlabel_classes = {
+    'versionadded':     'added',
+    'versionchanged':   'changed',
+    'deprecated':       'deprecated',
+}
+
 locale.versionlabels = DeprecatedDict(
     versionlabels,
     'sphinx.locale.versionlabels is deprecated. '
@@ -78,6 +84,7 @@ class VersionChange(SphinxDirective):
             messages = []
         if self.content:
             self.state.nested_parse(self.content, self.content_offset, node)
+        classes = ['versionmodified', versionlabel_classes[self.name]]
         if len(node):
             if isinstance(node[0], nodes.paragraph) and node[0].rawsource:
                 content = nodes.inline(node[0].rawsource, translatable=True)
@@ -87,11 +94,11 @@ class VersionChange(SphinxDirective):
                 node[0].replace_self(nodes.paragraph('', '', content, translatable=False))
 
             para = cast(nodes.paragraph, node[0])
-            para.insert(0, nodes.inline('', '%s: ' % text, classes=['versionmodified']))
+            para.insert(0, nodes.inline('', '%s: ' % text, classes=classes))
         else:
             para = nodes.paragraph('', '',
                                    nodes.inline('', '%s.' % text,
-                                                classes=['versionmodified']),
+                                                classes=classes),
                                    translatable=False)
             node.append(para)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_intl.py b/tests/test_intl.py
index ee4defa0e..4961d2550 100644
--- a/tests/test_intl.py
+++ b/tests/test_intl.py
@@ -705,20 +705,20 @@ def test_html_versionchanges(app):
             return ''
 
     expect1 = (
-        """<p><span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 1.0: </span>"""
+        """<p><span class="versionmodified deprecated">Deprecated since version 1.0: </span>"""
         """THIS IS THE <em>FIRST</em> PARAGRAPH OF DEPRECATED.</p>\n"""
         """<p>THIS IS THE <em>SECOND</em> PARAGRAPH OF DEPRECATED.</p>\n""")
     matched_content = get_content(result, "deprecated")
     assert expect1 == matched_content
 
     expect2 = (
-        """<p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 1.0: </span>"""
+        """<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 1.0: </span>"""
         """THIS IS THE <em>FIRST</em> PARAGRAPH OF VERSIONADDED.</p>\n""")
     matched_content = get_content(result, "versionadded")
     assert expect2 == matched_content
 
     expect3 = (
-        """<p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 1.0: </span>"""
+        """<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 1.0: </span>"""
         """THIS IS THE <em>FIRST</em> PARAGRAPH OF VERSIONCHANGED.</p>\n""")
     matched_content = get_content(result, "versionchanged")
     assert expect3 == matched_content