Delight experienced by vacuous couple seeing writer (5)

I believe the answer is:

joyce

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'writer' is the definition.
(I know that Joyce is a writer)

'delight experienced by vacuous couple' is the wordplay.
'delight' becomes 'joy' (synonyms).
'experienced by vacuous couple' becomes 'ce' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'joy'+'ce'='JOYCE'

'seeing' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for joyce that I've seen before include "lady" , "James ---, Irish modernist author" , "James . . . . ., William . . . . ." , "James -, Ulysses author" , "James . . . . ., great Irish novelist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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