diff --git a/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake b/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake
index fb64b0fbab..6a9ba2ab4e 100644
--- a/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake
+++ b/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ if (GCC AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "9.2")
     target_compile_options(PlatformCommonInternal INTERFACE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:-Wsuggest-override>)
 endif()
 
+if(QT_FEATURE_force_asserts)
+    target_compile_definitions(PlatformCommonInternal INTERFACE QT_FORCE_ASSERTS)
+endif()
+
 if(DEFINED QT_EXTRA_DEFINES)
     target_compile_definitions(PlatformCommonInternal INTERFACE ${QT_EXTRA_DEFINES})
 endif()
diff --git a/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md b/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md
index 357c52a51b..62e4e1acd7 100644
--- a/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md
+++ b/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The effort of this is tracked in QTBUG-85373 and QTBUG-85349.
 | -gdb-index                            | -DFEATURE_enable_gdb_index=ON                     |                                                                 |
 | -strip                                |                                                   |                                                                 |
 | -gc-binaries                          | -DFEATURE_gc_binaries=ON                          |                                                                 |
-| -force-asserts                        |                                                   |                                                                 |
+| -force-asserts                        | -DFEATURE_force_asserts=ON                        |                                                                 |
 | -developer-build                      | -DFEATURE_developer_build=ON                      |                                                                 |
 | -shared                               | -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON                            |                                                                 |
 | -static                               | -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF                           |                                                                 |