“+ adjective
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary para- (I) + magnetic
: being or relating to a magnetizable substance that like aluminum and platinum has small but positive susceptibility varying but little with magnetizing force
paramagnetic materials which are but slightly more magnetic than a vacuum, and are therefore attracted weakly by the poles of an electromagnet — R.M.Bozorth & R.A.Chegwidden
— compare diamagnetic , ferromagnetic