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What's authoritative in this question? Wikipedia, for example, lists multiple notions of morality, one of them "a synonym for 'ethics'", and ethics is said to be a philosophical discipline addressing questions about morality...
When there are multiple usage patterns which are mutually inconsistent and incompatible, usefulness becomes the most likely distinguishing factor.
It is useful to be able to distinguish between "societal standards of right and wrong" and "rules defining the proper way to do specific things".