diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 1effebe59bd4..62d92323343e 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@
     # Disable v8 hugepage by default.
     'v8_enable_hugepage%': 0,
 
+    # Disabled by configure --v8-lite-mode.
+    'v8_enable_webassembly%': 1,
+
     # This is more of a V8 dev setting
     # https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22920/files#r222779926
     'v8_enable_fast_mksnapshot': 0,
@@ -509,6 +512,9 @@
       ['v8_enable_v8_checks == 1', {
         'defines': ['V8_ENABLE_CHECKS'],
       }],
+      ['v8_enable_webassembly == 1', {
+        'defines': ['V8_ENABLE_WEBASSEMBLY'],
+      }],
       ['v8_enable_pointer_compression == 1', {
         'defines': ['V8_COMPRESS_POINTERS'],
       }],
diff --git a/src/node.cc b/src/node.cc
index 838106acff8f..06f5d385afc5 100644
--- a/src/node.cc
+++ b/src/node.cc
@@ -786,8 +786,10 @@ static ExitCode ProcessGlobalArgsInternal(std::vector<std::string>* args,
     v8_args.emplace_back("--js-source-phase-imports");
   }
 
+#if V8_ENABLE_WEBASSEMBLY
   // WebAssembly JS Promise Integration
   v8_args.emplace_back("--experimental-wasm-jspi");
+#endif  // V8_ENABLE_WEBASSEMBLY
 
 #ifdef __POSIX__
   // Block SIGPROF signals when sleeping in epoll_wait/kevent/etc.  Avoids the