Unexceptional. Idle basically means still or lazy so you would want an antonym to noteworthy, such as unexceptional. Hope this helped.
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Yes your sentence is correct but you have add "in" in place of within
A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics an emotional, happy, etc.